2-996-070 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Review of Rifle Volunteers by the Queen at Edinburgh - the Troops marching past Her Majesty, 1860. From a sketch by B. Clayton. 'The volunteer array was commanded in chief by General Sir George Wetherall, and the two divisions respectively by Lord Rokeby and General Cameron...The marching past of this immense body of volunteers, numbering 21,514, occupied an hour and twenty minutes...The whole army simultaneously moved forward until the bugle called a halt. The officers then saluted with their swords, and the whole line presented arms. The final command given was three cheers for the Queen, and instantaneously was the command responded to and echoed from one end of the line to the other. The cheer, which was caught up with still louder acclamation by the spectators on the hillside, was tremendous and overpowering, and continued almost without intermission for several minutes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.