Picture No | 10219791 |
Date | 1855 |
Description | British Soldiers dragging supplies to their camp, Crimean Wa |
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Engraving showing a mounted policeman supervising some British soldiers pulling stores back to camp, 1855. So many horses perished in the severe Crimean winter that soldiers had to act as beasts of burden until reinforcements arrived.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 1855. p 261. By Engraved by W Thomas. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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