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Illustrations of West India Regiment soldiers in u...
Image, AquatintThese images are taken from Charles Hamilton Smith's Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last R...
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Photograph of soldiers pitching tents and preparin...
Photograph, Image, AlbumThis photograph is of West India Regiment soldiers preparing their camp. Major General Charles Howard Foulkes (1875–1969...
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Photograph of three white British officers from th...
Photograph, Image Created date: 1860–1880This photograph is of three white British officers from the 1st West India Regiment, which played an important role in p...
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Photographs of West India Regiment soldiers in Sie...
Photograph, Image, AlbumThese photographs are of West India Regiment soldiers in Sierra Leone celebrating on Christmas Day. Major General Charle...
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Racist caricature in a children's alphabet book: '...
Image, Illustration, Children's bookThe ‘King’ who was militarily defeated was Kofi Karikari – known as ‘King Coffee’ by the British’ – ruler of the Ashanti...
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Report into the state of a colony for liberated sl...
ReportWest India Regiment soldiers who were no longer needed by the British Army, or who were too old or injured, were retired...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Ind...
BookBryan Edwards was born in Britain but lived much of his life in the colony of Jamaica, where he was a planter with sever...
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