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.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Thomas Gandara (second from the left), a Greek robber, and his gang members, posing with their stolen jewelry in 1923
Serious robbers, well armed for the time with Mausers and edged weapons.
ReplyDeleteThe Bonnie and Clyde of the era?
Thieves are no better than murderers.
ReplyDeleteI'd guess liberated mannlicher-schonauers
ReplyDeleteThey look like Mauser's to me.
DeleteAnon 12:55 has it. Mausers have the bolt handle farther back, about even with the trigger . Mannlicher Shonhauer had the bolt handle farther forward.
Delete"split bridge"
DeletePeople were specialized even back then. I wonder how he came to be focused on robbing Greeks.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Thanks for that.
DeleteThose tunics are gay.
ReplyDeleteTelling the gentlemen that their tunics are gay would probably be a bad choice.
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