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.
his commander wouldn't include him in his regiment when they shipped out to the boer war, so he made a deal with a london newspaper to be a reporter at large in south africa, covering the conflict. his personal account of righting a derailed train under fire, C-96 Mauser drawn as he directed action, and his description of the feelings brought forth from surviving the episode are classic reading.
Winston Churchill
ReplyDeleteThat's my guess as well...
DeleteThat pic would need to have been taken in the 1870's if its Winston. Fidelity of the image says otherwise.
ReplyDeleteSpin Drift
https://winstonchurchill.org/the-life-of-churchill/child/
DeleteAlways confident, sometimes correct, eh Spin Drift?
DeleteYoung Winston Churchill
ReplyDeleteirontomflint
Looks like Winnie to me.
ReplyDeleteBears an amazing resemblance to my former and future President.
ReplyDeleteMake of that what you will.
They’ll nuke the country into a self lighted glass lined wasteland before they let that happen…
DeleteLooks more like Barron Trump
DeleteCharles Lindbergh I do believe
ReplyDeleteI’m thinking Prince Edward Vlll of Great Britain, early part of the last century.
ReplyDeleteWho knows? All those Limeys look alike.
ReplyDeletethat's funny
DeleteWinston Churchill, at the age of 18 as a student at Harrow School, 1892
ReplyDeleteAnd the other kid is Keith Richards.
DeleteGood one!
DeleteDon't be silly.
DeleteRichards was already teaching at Harrow by the 1880s.
Bat boy?
ReplyDeleteI miss the Weekly World News. Very entertaining.
DeleteAmazing spine on that one, wish there were more like him today.
ReplyDeleteTim Curry
ReplyDeleteCharles Lindburgh?
ReplyDeletehis commander wouldn't include him in his regiment when they shipped out to the boer war, so he made a deal with a london newspaper to be a reporter at large in south africa, covering the conflict. his personal account of righting a derailed train under fire, C-96 Mauser drawn as he directed action, and his description of the feelings brought forth from surviving the episode are classic reading.
ReplyDeletehttps://winstonchurchill.org/the-life-of-churchill/child/churchill-proclaims-he-will-save-the-empire/
ReplyDeletePhoto caption "Winston Churchill at Harrow School, 1892"
Don't forget that classic: Gallipoli.
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