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English: Depicts the moment when a Prussian officer informs the the Duke of Wellington—who was attending the Duchess of Richmond's ball—that the French have crossed the border at Charleroi and that the Prussians would concentrate their army at Ligny.
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Source http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/napoleon/search/printsdetail.php?ID=11498&doctype=Prints&sitelanguage=english The McGill University Napoleon Collection
Author Drawn & Etched by W. Heath. // Aquatinted by J.C. Stadler. // London, Published by T. Tegg, III, Cheapside, April 1, 1818.

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