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.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Italian gun captured by Austro-Hungarians during Caporetto breakthrough, November 1917
What a beast. I'll bet that thing was a job to even move. Good thing there was no counter battery fire at that time.
In WWII they had trouble moving small artillery in the mud with modern trucks and jeeps.
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