3-046-943 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Autumn Campaign, 1872. Mock battles by the British Army in Wiltshire. 'Outposts; Limbers under cover; 10th Hussars scouting; Following H.Quarters with wire; 3rd Dragoons near Steeple Langford; Too Close - Umpires Intervening; the fording of the river Wiley by the West York Militia; Bridge supposed to be blown up...the Royal Welsh Fusiliers are seen crossing by a pontoon bridge...The amazement of rustics and village school-children at the apparition of the troops, as well as the methods in which the soldiers contrived to make themselves comfortable while marching a dozen or fifteen miles each day, getting rest and refreshment where they could, may amuse the reader who looks at our remaining Illustrations. The operation of setting up the telegraph wire by the Royal Engineers, in the rear of head-quarters, is of some interest as a modern improvement in the art of war'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.