Military Athletic Sports at Lillie-Bridge, West Brompton, [London], 1876. 'The most interesting performances were those of horsemen wielding the lance or the sword, tilting at rings or at tent-pegs, slicing lemons with a sabre-cut as they galloped past, or fencing with one another lance against was also fencing between a foot-soldier with a bayonet and a mounted lancer or swordsman'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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