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British soldiers

British Soldiers, 1710.
The British army did not practice a regular system of rotation or relief and, as a result, the quality of the soldiers was poor.

Artist unknown. From D.W. Prowse, A History of Newfoundland, from the English, Colonial and Foreign Records (London: Macmillan, 1895) 224.

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