excerpt from 'Canterbury Journal, 1798' pp. p. 308–309 (107 words)
excerpt from 'Canterbury Journal, 1798' pp. p. 308–309 (107 words)
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We all set off to Barham Downs by ten a.m. to see the troops reviewed. Twenty cannons fired a feu-de-joie in honour of the Prince of Wales’ birthday (then thirty-six years of age). The whole garrison of the city paraded on the ground in front of the Royal Cavalry Barracks, and made a most brilliant appearance, forming a square consisting of artillery, the Prince of Wales’, and the 17th Dragoons, the West Kent, and Hereford Militia, with the supplementary men attached to each battalion, forming a body of near 5000 men. […] The review over, the music ended with “God save the King.” |
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