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    VICTORIAN WARS

    Jan 11, 2022 2 minutes

    An ancestor who served between 1837 and 1901 may have seen action in a number of places. As well as the best-known and bloodiest clashes of the Crimean War, the Anglo-Zulu wars, the Second Boer War and the Indian Mutiny, conflicts may have taken your forebears to Afghanistan, Egypt, China or even New Zealand.

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