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.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Dude looks focused and dangerous
On August 24, 1862, Captain Raphael Semmes launched the CSS Alabama becoming the most fearsome privateer in service to the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
AFAIK you always could. The major drawback is that you can't take it anywhere. Most other countries won't allow you to enter their waterways anymore. They won't allow you to be personally armed on a boat, they would absolutely freak out if you arrived with cannons mounted! Unless they know you have backup floating around over the horizon, they would attempt to seize it.
A few years ago I wrote an article on Raphael Semmes and the Alabama’s duel with the USS Kearsarge for Civil War Quarterly magazine. It’s available to read online, free in its entirety, including artwork, at https://donhollway.com/alabama-kearsarge/
CSS ALABAMA was a national ship, a Privateer is privately owned and a profitmaking enterprise
ReplyDeleteBack when you could own your own warship.
DeleteAFAIK you always could.
DeleteThe major drawback is that you can't take it anywhere. Most other countries won't allow you to enter their waterways anymore. They won't allow you to be personally armed on a boat, they would absolutely freak out if you arrived with cannons mounted! Unless they know you have backup floating around over the horizon, they would attempt to seize it.
Captain Semmes? Focussed and dangerous? Oh, yes.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Nemo was based on him, apparently……
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I wrote an article on Raphael Semmes and the Alabama’s duel with the USS Kearsarge for Civil War Quarterly magazine. It’s available to read online, free in its entirety, including artwork, at https://donhollway.com/alabama-kearsarge/
ReplyDeleteMany thanks Don.
DeleteA great man.
ReplyDeleteMr Holloway - thank you for posting a link to your article. It was fascinating reading.
ReplyDelete^^ Indeed. I am neither an American nor a Civil War buff but that article was fantastic.. I learned much and bookmarked your website. Thank you.
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