3-034-667 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Autumn Campaign: plan of Sir Hope Grant's intrenchments on Chobham Common, 1871. Map of the area used by the British Army for military manoeuvres. 'The fourth and final battle of the fortnight's campaign in mimic warfare, conducted by nearly 36,000 troops - regulars, militia, and volunteers - assembled under Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge in the country round Aldershott [in Hampshire], was fought on Thursday week... It will be remembered there were three divisions of the forces engaged, and that two of those divisions, the Second and the Third, commanded respectively by Major-General Carey and Major-General Sir Charles Staveley, were acting in co-operation with each other, to represent the two portions of an enemy's forces coming up towards the metropolis from the south and west of England; while the remaining division, the First, then commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Hope Grant, was supposed to be the British army defending the valley of the Thames and the road to London against their combined attack... Sir Hope Grant retired from his command, and was succeeded by General Carey, at the head of the augmented First Division'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.