Bombs - Guns - Weapons

Apr. 16 Where arms can do no harm: Bohumir Tuhy, a pensioned off staff captain, who is living in the small town of Rosnice in the region of Hradec Kralove 9East Bohemia) the town where the Battle of Koniggratz was fought between Austria and Prussia in 1866, owns one of the biggest private collections of weapons in Czechoslovakia. Nearly all his life he has been collecting all that is connected with the Napoleonic wars, the wars in Italay and especially with the Austrian Prussian War of 1866; not only arms, but also distinctions, orders and military literature. Experts from Czechoslovakia and abroad often visit the 78 year old collector of historical arms to view his collections. A helmet of the Prussian infantry guard dating back to the period between 1855 and 1870

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