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.
It will be fun to research that one.
ReplyDeleteMonitor USS Puritan. A very low freeboard barely seaworthy craft. Served well in the Spanish-American War and as a training ship.
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Naval architecture, before they required the designer to berth in on the first voyage.
Delete5' of freeboard? Barely lake-worthy.
The Great White Fleet launched by Teddy Roosevelt had some impressive battleships. I always liked The Sand Pebbles. Main steam valve!
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