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When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Fields, the Training Grounds, and the Training Fields

In front of us, in these flatfields, it is where the square bashing took place. You commissioned an aeroplane to fly over and take the photographs? Yes. But i also used goggled earth, i have to admit. And i have the most wonderful photograph here of the rages where the bullets were shot - that happened to show up on gorgle earth on that particular day. Amazing. Deep furrows in the hillside are extraordinary. Right where next margaret, we're goingon up east of here for a mile maybe, and we're going to the army ser cor field, where the horses and mules gun carriages were kept. There were st

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