Marshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician Pocahontas the first large-scale prefabricated ferrovitreous

the first large-scale prefabricated ferrovitreous (iron and glass) structure

'High-ward Conchites'

Entrance to Barber Surgeons' Hall

headed 'Newton's Birth-Place at Woolstrope'

Marshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician Pocahontas the first large-scale prefabricated ferrovitreousMarshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician, 1873. Of Irish descent, Patrice MacMahon (1808 1893) was the commander of the French army defeated by the Prussians at the Battle of Sedan in the Franco Prussian War in 1870. He later served as President of France from 1873 1879. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860 1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris.