French Cavalry in Action Size:S: 40 x 30cm Meeting of the Society of

Meeting of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi Buildings

This relates to a debate in the House of Commons when the Conservative MP for Buckinghamshire proposed a motion for a Select Committee to sit in judgment on Income Tax and assess if it could not be more equitably levied

The sails were either louvered and could be opened or closed with a pulley

King George VI in coronation robes

French Cavalry in Action Size:S: 40 x 30cm Meeting of the Society of'French Cavalry in Action', 1918, (1926). The combination of trench warfare, modern artillery, the machine gun and barbed wire rendered cavalry effectively obsolete in World War I.