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.
A German Landsknect? One of the mercenaries, murderers, rapists, looters, and thieves that were the scourge of Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, working for anyone who would toss them a few coins. They set a German standard that was revisited and revitalized in WWII by the Waffen SS. Deutschland forever, I suppose.
A German Landsknect? One of the mercenaries, murderers, rapists, looters, and thieves that were the scourge of Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, working for anyone who would toss them a few coins. They set a German standard that was revisited and revitalized in WWII by the Waffen SS. Deutschland forever, I suppose.
ReplyDelete"Knecht" is just an English "Knight" but with softer pronunciation and much worse PR.
Delete@Survivorman99: That is an audacious statement. Are you in a grouchy mood today?
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