And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Roland at Roncesvalles
ReplyDeleteYep. Charlemagne had no strategic business in Spain. His errors led to Roland's death. But he died like a man. Thus we sing of him to this day.
Delete"Charles the great, he cannot but deplore.
And with him Franks an hundred thousand mourn,
Who for Rollanz have marvellous remorse."
Roland died.
DeleteSouth of El Paso somewhere?
ReplyDeleteCould be Chitcongo...
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