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A woman at Waterloo: Andrew Roberts introduces the remarkable memoir of Magdalene De Lancey, wife of Wellington's chief of staff, who accompanied her husband on a campaign that climaxed in triumph and tragedy.
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'I arrived at Brussels on Thursday, June 8th 1815, and was much surprised at the peaceful appearance of that town, and the whole country from Ostend,' wrote Magdalene De Lancey of the period ten days before the battle of Waterloo:
We were billeted in the house of
the Count de Lannoy, in the Park,
which is a square of very beautiful
houses with fine large trees in the
centre. The Count de Lannoy was
very attentive, and we had a suite
of very excellent rooms, up four
stories, which is the fashion in that
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