3-008-456 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Banquet to the Fusilier Guards and others of Her Majesty's Troops, 1000 in number, at St. John, New Brunswick, [Canada], 1862. British soldiers mobilised during the American Civil War because of the '...threatened rupture between this country and the Federal Government of America (in connection with the Trent affair)'. A sign, decorated with greenery. reads: 'Welcome to New Brunswick, Guards of Our Most Gracious Queen [Victoria]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.