Sujet
The Home Campaign, 1871. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The Home Campaign, 1871. 'Artillery covering Retreat of Infantry; Police Camp, Gun Hill; H.R.H. Prince of Wales Head Quarters; the 1st Division Retreating on Chobham Ridges...The retreat of the first division, under Sir Hope Grant, from Aldershott to the Chobham Ridges,...is here illustrated by two sketches - one, of the Grenadier Guards marching, with dragoons and field artillery covering their flank; the other, of a battery prepared in action to defend the line of march. The Prince of Wales's quarters, with the tent occupied by his Royal Highness, and his private mess-tent, in the encampment of the cavalry brigade attached to the second division, under General Carey, are shown in another sketch. The encampment of a detachment of the metropolitan police, at Aldershott, employed during these military manoeuvres for the protection of civil order, is the subject of the remaining Illustration'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM24A61_257
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
57,0Mo (4,8Mo) / 31,2cm x 45,7cm / 3689 x 5402 (300dpi)