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 ====== Dartford Camp ======
-Longways Country Dance, triple minor
+Longways Country Dance, triple minor\\
+Country Dances for the Year 1781, by Thomas Skillern\\
-Country Dances for the Year 1781, by Thomas Skillern
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+When England felt the threat of an invasion by French and Spanish
+forces in 1779-1780, they mobilized troops and camped them in the
+south of England to be ready to repel invaders.
+On July 20th, 1780, some 5,000 soldiers decamped from Dartford Heath
+and marched to Gravesend in a military exercise that tested the
+transportation scheme. When the entire force was shiped from Gravesend
+to Tilbury and back, it was declared a resounding success.
+Dartford Heath was home to some 8,000 soldiers at its peak. The presence
+of the men was both boon and bane to the nearby communities, which certainly
+made money from the encampments, but which also suffered numerous incidents.
+Local belle Miss Ethelinda Margaretta Thorpe, later Mrs. Potts, was inspired to verse:
+From yonder Heath the lark no longer soars
+The grasshopper ceases while the cannon roars--
+Where sportive flocks one Whiten'd o'er the ground
+Now bleaching huts are fixed our view to bound;
+Where the furze phalanx could sweet herbage ward,
+From prowling herds--now mounts the Captain's guard,
+Or veterans wait till ovens here disgorge--
+Or Sutler scores,--and hereto glows the forge.
+Video: https://www.regencydances.org/index.php?wL=518\\
+Recording: {{ ::music:dartford_camp_i-09-khb-001.mp3.zip |}}

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