Queen Victoria firing the first shot at Wimbledon, July 1860 Finish:Float frame He used decisive and brutal

He used decisive and brutal methods to quell the rebellions and corruption that had become endemic within the empire

the playing card the Knave of Spades

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View of the opening of new London Bridge by William VI and Queen Adelaide

Queen Victoria firing the first shot at Wimbledon, July 1860 Finish:Float frame He used decisive and brutalQueen Victoria firing the first shot at Wimbledon, July 1860, (c1920). The queen opens the first meeting of the National Rifle Association by firing the first shot from a Whitworth rifle. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s).