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Title: A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895

Author: J. Ross

Illustrator: Sir Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson

Release date: February 10, 2019 [eBook #58852]

Language: English

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A HISTORY
OF THE
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.

Field Marshal H.R.H. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge K.G., G.C.B., G.C.H.,
Colonel Coldstream Guards 1805-1850.
FROM A PRINT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE REGIMENT.

A
HISTORY
OF THE
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,

From 1815 to 1895.

BY

LT. Col. Ross-of-Bladensburg, C.B.

LATE

Coldstream Guards.

Illustrated by
Lieut. Nevile R. Wilkinson,
Coldstream Guards.

London,
A.D. Innes & Co.
1896.

THIS HISTORY
OF
HER MAJESTY'S COLDSTREAM REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS,
FROM THE YEAR 1815 TO 1885,
IS, BY MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION,
HUMBLY DEDICATED TO
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN-EMPRESS