As well as these informal recreational events, the Level (especially the southern part, closest to the town centre) was used for formal, town-wide events and commemorations, such as the Prince's birthday celebrations. The Allied Powers' defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte was celebrated in Brighton by the Great Peace Festival of August 1814. A mass dinner of roast beef and plum puddings was served at 75 double rows of tables for more than 7,000 people, and the town's authorities organised activities such as running races, stoolball, dancing and kiss-in-the-ring. The coronations of King George IV and Victoria, and the ends of both the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War were celebrated with similar large-scale public feasts.