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The Easter Volunteer Review: the defence of Ovingdean, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

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The Easter Volunteer Review: the defence of Ovingdean, 1870. British soldiers take part in an annual event near Brighton: a '...sham fight on Easter Monday, in which the Volunteer Rifle Corps of London and the neighbouring counties, with a few coming from Lancashire or Yorkshire, mustered to the number of 26,000 on Brighton Downs...The preordained result, as usual, was a drawn battle; each army was content to retire, without discomfiture or fear of pursuit, from the ground it had been allowed to gain.' From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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Photo12/Heritage ImagesThe Print Collector

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HRM24A48_357

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51,6Mo (6,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,8cm / 4960 x 3634 (300dpi)

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