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A year in the life: 1851
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March |
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Lane Fox's battalion moves back to Windsor Castle |
Thompson, 1977: 15 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 24th birthday |
See 1827 entry, uncertainty about exact day of Pitt-Rivers' birth |
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May |
1 |
Great Exhibition opens by Queen Victoria |
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May |
28 |
Lane Fox attends levée on promotion as Captain |
Manchester Guardian and Observer 1 June 1851 |
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August |
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September |
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Lane Fox's battalion moves to Tower of London |
Thompson, 1977: 15 |
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October |
15 |
Great Exhibition closes |
It is not known when (or, indeed, if ) P-R visited the exhibition |
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November |
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December |
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Lane Fox joined Army Rifle committee |
Bowden, 1991: 15 |
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Testing new rifles at Woolwich |
Thompson, 1977: 122 |
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Lane Fox started collecting locks and keys |
Chapman, 1981; Thompson, 1977: 122; Pitt-Rivers, 1883: title page |
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Lane Fox's visiting Vincennes, France and Rome, examines rifle training |
Lane Fox, 1854. Treatise on Instruction of Musketry. Hythe School of Musketry, Hythe, UK pages 32-33; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 1 |
This appears to be the only mention of this trip, he may be mistaken about the year as of course he travelled to France and Italy in 1852 for this purpose. Or perhaps he is right and the later sources are wrong? |
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