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Visit of Her Majesty to the Camp, at Aldershott, 1856. British Army garrison in Hampshire. 'On every side there is merely a waste boggy moor, dreary and repellent in its aspect. In the distance are the black huts of the Camp, quite in keeping with the moor on which they stand; and in the foreground is a long narrow piece of muddy water called the Basingstoke Canal, into which occasionally the waters of the surrounding bogs drain'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.