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.
Talk about a lot of work to make that. Wow. Had to be some high noble's armor. Only lacking jewels, so its not a royal family helmet but a high ranked officers?
I remember discussions of whether viking helmets actually had horns on them. Now the Persians show us that one culture really did, although maybe just for ceremony. What year was this made?
Early 19th century "Turkic" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples) helmets have a variety of horned versions. Rifles pretty much put an end of the usefulness of armor in general other than ceremonial.
Talk about a lot of work to make that. Wow. Had to be some high noble's armor. Only lacking jewels, so its not a royal family helmet but a high ranked officers?
ReplyDeleteI remember discussions of whether viking helmets actually had horns on them. Now the Persians show us that one culture really did, although maybe just for ceremony. What year was this made?
ReplyDeleteEarly 19th century "Turkic" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples) helmets have a variety of horned versions. Rifles pretty much put an end of the usefulness of armor in general other than ceremonial.
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