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Description: 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.
Title: Intelligence of the Battle of Ligny
Credit: 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.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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