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.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
A section of the foremast of HMS Victory with a cannonball shot through it, which had happened during the Battle of Trafalgar.
The previously unseen piece is set to be one of the star exhibits as the HMS Victory: The Nation’s Flagship gallery reopens at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on May 17.
Seeing the re-opened Victory would almost be worth going to the UK for.
ReplyDeleteEh, wat. Rather ghastly to keep hidden for all this time.
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