The Volunteer Review at Tring on Easter Monday: the March Past at Beacon Hill, 1876. 'The review and mimic battle of the metropolitan and home counties volunteer place in Ashridge patches of snow still lay on the slopes, and some of the heavy clay, [but] the ground and the weather were both favourable for the operations. The head of Beacon remarkably like the site of a Roman it and the first of the Steps there is a well-sheltered would be, perhaps, going too far to say that the attack entirely succeeded; but certainly it
The Volunteer Review at Tring on Easter Monday: the March Past at Beacon Hill, 1876. 'The review and mimic battle of the metropolitan and home counties volunteer place in Ashridge patches of snow still lay on the slopes, and some of the heavy clay, [but] the ground and the weather were both favourable for the operations. The head of Beacon remarkably like the site of a Roman it and the first of the Steps there is a well-sheltered would be, perhaps, going too far to say that the attack entirely succeeded; but certainly it was a partial success, despite the circumstances that Steps Hill ought to be almost an impregnable position if not attacked by a force considerably superior to the one holding it, and that in this instance it was attacked by a smaller one labouring under the serious disadvantage of having no artillery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
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