Part No. 10 - Inscription composed by Thomas Babington Macaulay for a monument to British forces killed in the Crimean War

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O./15.12H/No. 10

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Inscription composed by Thomas Babington Macaulay for a monument to British forces killed in the Crimean War

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  • 1857 (Creation)

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet
(1800-1859)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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'To the Memory / Of the British Soldiers and Sailors / Who / During the Years 1854 and 1855 / Died far from their Country / In defence of the Liberties of Europe / This Monument was erected / By Queen Victoria and her People / 1857'

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      Pasted to a guard in O.15.12H

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