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Colonel Mordaunt watching a cock fight at Lucknow, India, 1790. Artist: Johan Zoffany

Colonel Mordaunt watching a cock fight at Lucknow, India, 1790. In an open-sided tent, East India Company officers and administrators sit and stand under a canopy. In the foreground two cocks with metal spurs fight, anxiously watched by attendants. Various members of the surrounding Indian crowd hold their fighting cocks in readiness for their turn. A group of women stand apart on the left with musicians behind them. This picture once belonged to Warren Hastings (1732-1818), the first Governor-General of India

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Indian cavalrymen, 1896. Artist: Gregory & Co

Indian cavalrymen, 1896. Guides Cavalry (Queen's Own) of the North West Frontier; the Central India Horse; the 1st Bengal Cavalry (the famous 1st Irregulars); the 9th Bengal Lancers (the renowned 1st Hodson's Horse); the 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Bengal Lancers; the 18th Bengal Lancers, known as the 2nd Mahratta Horse; the 1st Punjab Cavalry; and the 1st Bombay Cavalry, the old Poona Horse'. A print from The Navy and Army Illustrated, 3rd April 1896

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The Battle of Majuba Hill, 1900. Creator: Richard Caton Woodville II

The Battle of Majuba Hill, 1900. From "South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. I", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1900]

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