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    The Duchess of Richmond's Ball was a ball hosted by Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond in Brussels on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre...
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    hostess of the Duchess of Richmond's ball. Born at Gordon Castle, Lady Charlotte Gordon was the eldest child of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, and...
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  • Duchess of Richmond's ball (an actual event held the night of 15/16 June 1815), which was held in Brussels for the Duke of Wellington on the eve of the...
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    1811 London ball given by the Duchess of Bedford. The Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels in 1815, dramatically interrupted by news of Napoleon's advance...
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  • Emperor of the French. Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond: Organiser of the Duchess of Richmond's ball. Ned Ludd: Fictional figurehead of the Luddites...
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    James Hay, Lord Hay (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    by Georgiana, Dowager Lady De Ros (a daughter of the Duchess of Richmond) about Duchess of Richmond's ball that took place on 15 June 1815. She recalled...
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    Battle of Quatre Bras, his wife held a ball for his fellow officers. The glittering celebration became famous as the Duchess of Richmond's ball and was...
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    Balmacaan. The Bradley-Martin ball is perhaps best-remembered as the end of the excesses of the Gilded Age. Duchess of Richmond's ball Martin, Frederick Townsend...
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  • Lord Sussex Lennox (category English cricketers of 1826 to 1863)
    remembered for the Duchess of Richmond's ball which she threw the night before the Battle of Waterloo. He married the Hon. Mary Lawless, daughter of Valentine...
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    by his eldest son Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (1818–1903). Duchess of Richmond's Ball Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage...
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  • Waterloo (1970 film) (category Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
    declare war once again. In Brussels during the Duchess of Richmond's ball, the Duke of Wellington is warned of Napoleon's march into Belgium, tactically driving...
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    Miguel Ricardo de Álava (category Members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain))
    of King William I of the Netherlands, which allowed him to attend the Duchess of Richmond's ball and to be at Wellington's side during the Battle of Waterloo...
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    The Black Brunswicker (category Collections of the Lady Lever Art Gallery)
    scene is inspired by the Duchess of Richmond's ball on 15 June 1815, from which the officers departed to join troops at the Battle of Quatre Bras. The woman's...
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    Robert Alexander Hillingford (category Düsseldorf school of painting)
    1998, they are widely scattered. The Duchess of Richmond's Ball (1870s – Goodwood House) An Incident in the story of Don Quixote by Cervantes (1879) Yet...
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    killed by a gunshot at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June, the night after he had attended the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels and left it happy...
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    the Duchess of Richmond's Ball, he fought at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, alongside his cousin John Cameron of Fassiefern, Colonel of the 92nd...
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    not of equal rank. He was later provided passports. Arenberg took no part in the 1815 Waterloo Campaign other than to attend the Duchess of Richmond's ball...
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  • 1815 in literature (category Years of the 19th century in literature)
    offices of publisher John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street in London. May – First publication of the North American Review. June 15 – The Duchess of Richmond's ball...
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  • Devonshire House Ball or the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball was an elaborate fancy dress ball, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, held on...
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    Thomas Picton (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    commander of the 5th Infantry Division. Along with every other senior officer in the army, he was invited to the Duchess of Richmond's Ball that was held...
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    the morning of 16 June, at the Duchess of Richmond's ball, on receiving a dispatch from the Prince of Orange, he was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's...
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    Jakob von Washington (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    the night of 15 June 1815, prior to the Battle of Quatre Bras, Washington was an invited guest at the now famous Duchess of Richmond's ball. He fought...
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    Becky Sharp (category Characters in British novels of the 19th century)
    Brussels for the campaign. Osborne, tiring of Amelia, grows attracted to Becky. At the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, Becky embarrasses Amelia by...
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  • Sharpe (novel series) (category Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
    news of Napoleon's invasion of Belgium to Wellington at the Duchess of Richmond's ball, during the Waterloo campaign (historically the bearer of the message...
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    of Richmond, and had issue. She was the hostess of the Duchess of Richmond's Ball—"the most famous ball in history", and eventually inherited all of the...
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  • patroness of the Royal Caledonian Ball, president of the Georgian Group, patroness of Richmond's Hope, First Aid 4 Gambia, a board member of the Historic...
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    neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Also, Luxembourg declared independence from the French Empire. June 15 – The Duchess of Richmond's ball is held...
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    of 15 June was Wellington certain that the Charleroi attack was the main French thrust. In the early hours of 16 June, at the Duchess of Richmond's ball...
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    Balfour House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi)
    1815 Duchess of Richmond's Ball prior to the Battle of Waterloo, Balfour House played host to a grand Christmas Ball on the night of December 24, 1862...
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  • "They’ve had plenty of chances before and achieved nothing". Later that evening Sharpe and Rossendale clash at the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, where...
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