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.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Giant Italian gun captured by Austro-Hungarians during Caporetto breakthrough, November 1917
Even by the standards and technology of the day that carriage looks as if it was knocked up by Bubba and Clyde on their back lot in a beer fog!
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ReplyDelete12 inch howitzer. La Boom!