The poster child white horse of Wiltshire dates to the 18C
The original White Horse, a stylized Bronze Age figure carved into an Oxfordshire hillside
One of the most visible and well-defined chalk horses, from 1812
A horse cut to celebrate the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838
Take a half-hour helicopter ride over the ancient site of Stonehenge
Tour the traditional Victorian-era Wadworth brewery in Devizes
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.