#Rara sciabola da ussaro d'epoca napoleonica

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Details of a hussar’s sabre of the Napoleonic era, 1802 - 1805

“Vivere Libero O Morire”, tr. Live Free or Die

“Viva La Repubblica Italiana”, tr. Long Live the Italian Republic.

The motto refers to the Italian Republic, a very short-lived Napoleonic state (1802-1805), born out of the Cisalpine Republic, whose president was Napoleon himself.

(Finarte)