The " Battle of Roses."

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 December 1890, Page 2

The " Battle of Roses."

t By way of makiug the one hun--1 dred and thirty-first anniversary of the battle of Minden, the Lanca*- • hire Fus'liers, at presont stationed at > Mu-yhill Birracks, Ghisgow, obi served the day with a military ceremony befitting tbe historic character ' of the ** Ros-;" engagement. The • battle of Minden, or the " Battle of • Roses," was i»no of the most impor- ' fant cngagments of the Seven Years' War, when Austria, France, Saxony, 3 Sweden, and Poland were arrayed 1 a ainst England and Prussia. The t Hanoverian army, at Minden (on tbo 1 border dividing France and Germany,'* was assisted by the Lancas- ' shire Fusiliers then known as the ' '• 20" — and five other English regi- " ments, aud the ba tie ended in the t d feat of the French, who, in their flight, were pursued through a l ' garden of roses, the men of the 1 Fusiliers as thoy entered the garden ' each plucking a rose and placing it in his cap, an incident which has ' ever since linked the rose with the 1 niomory of the battle. The proceedings began on Fridiy ab nt noon, ] when 300 me «, each wilh a mignon I rose in his cap, were marched on to j I tho parade grcvind, under the command of Colonel G'e. cross. In I addition to the tvcuriiiy of the roees by l.hu men. thn rlreim V>W» fM«

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tooned with evergreens and the queen of flowers, and the drummajor's staff and the colours were also brightened with wreaths.