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Lieu. Col. Holroyd's Light Dragoons
Peel 1878
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Letterpress with 2 columns of 6 lines each below. First line: "Britains! behold the Battles of the brave!"; last line: To British Freedom and immoral Fame."
John Baker Holroyd, later Earl of Sheffield, raised a regiment of light dragoons (the 22nd or Sussex regiment) during the American war (1775-1783). Cf. British Museum online catalog (item no. 2014,7024.1).
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Recruiting print for a volunteer regiment, with an etching showing three dragoons on horseback; the first horse rears over two wounded soldiers lying on the ground, two others beg for mercy.
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