Duchess of Richmond's ball
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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 Bras. Charlotte's husband Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, was in command of a reserve force in Brussels, which was protecting that city in case Napoleon Bonaparte invaded.
The Duchess of Richmond's Ball (1870s) by Robert Alexander Hillingford
Intelligence of the Battle of Ligny (1818) by William Heath, depicting a Prussian officer informing the Duke of Wellington that the French have crossed the border at Charleroi and that the Prussians would concentrate their army at Ligny
Before Waterloo (1868) by Henry O'Neil, depicting officers departing from the Duchess of Richmond's ball
The Black Brunswicker (1860) by John Everett Millais
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
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General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Aubigny, was a British peer, soldier, politician and Governor-General of British North America.
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
Charlotte, 4th Duchess of Richmond (1768–1842) (Joseph Nollekens, 1812)
The Duke of Richmond, 1789.