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Royal Sappers & Miners
Plate XVI.
plate XVI
Uniform 1854.
Printed by M & N Hanhart.

HISTORY
OF THE
ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS,

FROM THE FORMATION OF THE CORPS IN MARCH 1772, TO THE DATE
WHEN ITS DESIGNATION WAS CHANGED TO THAT OF
ROYAL ENGINEERS,
IN OCTOBER 1856.
BY
T. W. J. CONNOLLY,
QUARTERMASTER OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS.
“Of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents, by flood and field;
Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.”—Shakspeare.

“There is a corps which is often about him, unseen and unsuspected, and which is labouringas hard for him in peace as others do in war.”—The Times.

With Seventeen Coloured Illustrations.
SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II.
...

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