3-078-060 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Royal Military Exhibition at the Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, 1890. 'Helmet belonging to Sir Richard Warren; The Prince Imperial's Saddle showing the torn holster; Helmet worn by Cromwell; Silver Snuff Box; Cloak and Sword worn by Wellington at Waterloo; Cocked hat worn by the Royal Horse Guards 1795; Officer's Cap 2nd Dragoons "Scotch Greys" 1743; Sir Ralph Abercrombie's Pistols; Marlborough's Pistols; Officer's Cap time of George III; Lt. Infantry Cap time of George II. This Exhibition contains many interesting historical relics of the past achievements of the British Army, besides weapons, artillery, tents, and articles of camp equipment, which will show the civilian spectator how modern campaigns and battles are managed...Our Illustrations comprise a few objects of historical interest: a pair of handsome silver-mounted pistols, which belonged to that great military commander the Duke of Marlborough; the Duke of Wellington's cloak and sword worn at Waterloo; helmets from Warwick Castle, one said to be Cromwell's; old-fashioned headdresses of officers and soldiers in the last century; a snuffbox made from the metal of breastplates of officers killed at Waterloo; and the saddle of the Prince Imperial, who was killed in the Zulu War'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.