For years, Woodstock stately home Blenheim Palace has been hosting the Battle Proms event, a spectacular showcase of battle re-enactment and colourful wartime nostalgia.
Earlier this month the military-themed spectacle at the palace raised £7,404 for the Armed Forces charity SSAFA.
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The sold-out Battle Proms was watched by thousands of spectators who picnicked while enjoying the open-air concert.
It featured live orchestral music, carefully choreographed Spitfire and parachute displays, dramatic cannon fire and cavalry displays with a spectacular musical fireworks finale.
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The Battle Proms has been supporting military charities since 2004, raising a running total of over £458,000.
In 2016, revellers cracked open their hampers for the annual event, which raised money for armed forces charity Combat Stress.
Vintage vocals group The Rockabellas got the party mood going as visitors ambled around traditional fairground stalls and watched Napoleonic re-enactors in their encampment, followed by a First World War display from an expert cavalry troop and a gun salute from the English Field Artillery Company.
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A Spitfire tore through the skies overhead as the New English Concert Orchestra launched into a selection of classical favourites that ran through the evening.
The night finished with a dazzling firework display and traditional sing-alongs and flag-waving proms, including favourites Jerusalem and Rule Britannia.
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And in 2015 there was a special tribute to the Duke of Wellington, with almost 200 cannon, 40 kg of gunpowder, 12 horses, 120 soldiers in Napoleonic uniform, 60 musicians – and a Spitfire flypast.
It was the 200th anniversary of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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