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London Rifle Brigade Ball at Guildhall

View of the entrance to Somerset House on the Strand

They are watched from the doorway by a shrewish woman and a dog below

one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England

A policeman talking to a small girl

The School of Musketry mb-width 2218 London Rifle Brigade Ball at'The School of Musketry', 1881. A representative of the Boers asks the British Commander in Chief if he wishes to engage him to teach the British troops how to fire a musket. This relates to an attempt made in February 1881 by the British to take possession of Majuba Hill. However, a counter attack by the Boers left the British suffering heavy loss. Public attention was subsequently called to the inferiority of the shooting of British troops,