3-017-172 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Display of fireworks, Inner Harbour, Cherbourg, in honour of the British Channel Squadron, 1865. 'In the evening there was a brilliant display of fireworks from the French vessels in the inner harbour...our Illustration gives a view of this scene, as beheld from the Place Napoleon, near the equestrian Statue of the first Emperor'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.