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.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
HMS Britannia entering Portsmouth (detail), by George Chambers 1835 The Britannia, 120 guns, is shown here entering Portsmouth on 4 February 1835, under the command of Captain Peter Rainier, after spending five-and-a-half years in the Mediterranean.
what a handsome spritsailer in the foreground.
ReplyDeleteImagine the swell of pride of crewing her, of being a Brit, of seeing her stately majesty. Even her name suggests strength.
ReplyDeleteI hope they come around to keep their country before it's too late. I envision lots of hangings if/when that should happen.
yeh, just like all the arrests and prosecutions going on here.
DeleteNice Med cruise. Hope there was a few good liberty calls.
ReplyDeleteFive and a half years....those poor families.
ReplyDeleteImagine a line of Man-O-Wars of them as at Trafalgar or Glorious First of June
ReplyDeleteNamesake of Mt. Rainier in Washington State. Which, I believe, he never visited or even saw.
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