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King Victor Emmanuel II on the left and Napoleon on the right

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The 'Rough Riders' was the name given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry

Plate 22 from the paper 'Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus

Richard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary mb-code LW002660 King Victor Emmanuel II onRichard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary, 1880. First elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1857, Cross came to prominence in the General Election of 1868, when standing in South West Lancashire, he defeated Gladstone, then at the height of his popularity. In Disraeli's government of 1874 1880, Cross was appointed Home Secretary, despite having no previous ministerial experience, and as such was responsible for introducing the social reform