3-053-846 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Autumn Campaign on Dartmoor, [Devon], 1873. British Army manoeuvres. '...ordinary scenes and habits of camp life: Giving medicine to a horse; Dispensary; Ladies cooking officers' dinners, 1st Division; Trumpeter of the Tichborne Pets (Carabineers); The Duke of Cambridge viewing the battle of Bog Leaker's Mire...A battle took place on Tuesday afternoon, under the heights of Belliver Tor and Lofty Tor, where nearly 12,000 men were actively engaged in mimic fighting, which was renewed on Wednesday morning, but the rain and fog have not permitted much enjoyment of this military spectacle'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.