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.
The same artillery was used through the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War) and only after that was it replaced by fixed ammunition rifles (like the Hotchkiss and Parrot class of rifled breach loaders).
People forget that a six pounder Napoleon-style cannon is capable of hitting and destroying a target well over one mile distant.
ReplyDeleteAlso let it serve as a warning to "peppers" who feel that they can hide behind masonry.
DeleteThat's a pretty prosaic little cannon. I'd like to see what a big naval cannon from the Napoleonic wars would do.
DeleteThe same artillery was used through the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War) and only after that was it replaced by fixed ammunition rifles (like the Hotchkiss and Parrot class of rifled breach loaders).
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