2-982-018 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Volunteer Review at Tring on Easter Monday: the March Past at Beacon Hill, 1876. 'The review and mimic battle of the metropolitan and home counties volunteer corps...took place in Ashridge Park...large patches of snow still lay on the slopes, and some of the soil...was heavy clay, [but] the ground and the weather were both favourable for the operations. The head of Beacon Hill...is remarkably like the site of a Roman camp...between it and the first of the Steps there is a well-sheltered valley...It would be, perhaps, going too far to say that the attack entirely succeeded; but certainly it was a partial success, despite the circumstances that Steps Hill ought to be almost an impregnable position if not attacked by a force considerably superior to the one holding it, and that in this instance it was attacked by a smaller one labouring under the serious disadvantage of having no artillery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.