“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
They tried to come up with an electric motor for it, but the best battery they could come up with wasn't as powerful as 13 rednecks turning crankshaft...
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~50 years after the American Civil War
Touche!
The Confederacy's submarine wasn't very effective tho...
It was it's own ASW platform...
Ever see a diagram of the interior of the CSS Hunley?
Everybody that got in that thing had to know they were going to die. At least they took a blockade ship with them.
Were they the etymological originators of the term, "screw you"...?
They tried to come up with an electric motor for it, but the best battery they could come up with wasn't as powerful as 13 rednecks turning crankshaft...
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