3-028-238 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Easter Volunteer Review: the defence of Ovingdean, 1870. British soldiers take part in an annual event near Brighton: a '...sham fight on Easter Monday, in which the Volunteer Rifle Corps of London and the neighbouring counties, with a few coming from Lancashire or Yorkshire, mustered to the number of 26,000 on Brighton Downs...The preordained result, as usual, was a drawn battle; each army was content to retire, without discomfiture or fear of pursuit, from the ground it had been allowed to gain.' From "Illustrated London News", 1870.