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Display of fireworks, Inner Harbour, Cherbourg, in honour of the British Channel Squadron, 1865. 'In the evening there was a brilliant display of fireworks from the French vessels in the inner harbour...our Illustration gives a view of this scene, as beheld from the Place Napoleon, near the equestrian Statue of the first Emperor'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Display of fireworks, Inner Harbour, Cherbourg, in honour of the British Channel Squadron, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)