3-034-638 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Home Campaign, 1871. 'Artillery covering Retreat of Infantry; Police Camp, Gun Hill; H.R.H. Prince of Wales Head Quarters; the 1st Division Retreating on Chobham Ridges...The retreat of the first division, under Sir Hope Grant, from Aldershott to the Chobham Ridges,...is here illustrated by two sketches - one, of the Grenadier Guards marching, with dragoons and field artillery covering their flank; the other, of a battery prepared in action to defend the line of march. The Prince of Wales's quarters, with the tent occupied by his Royal Highness, and his private mess-tent, in the encampment of the cavalry brigade attached to the second division, under General Carey, are shown in another sketch. The encampment of a detachment of the metropolitan police, at Aldershott, employed during these military manoeuvres for the protection of civil order, is the subject of the remaining Illustration'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.