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News from nations and courts stirred by royal tragedy
Reports from London and beyond describe Lady Flora Hastings's death sparking courtly uproar and accusations against the Queen. The era’s travel, theater earnings, and European military notes mingle with wealth, pensions, and industrial advances across France and Britain, including rail progress and a Borodino-scale camp.
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Flora Hastings
Liverpool
Star
Eglinton Castle
Cressy
Poictiers
C. Gere
Lord Durham
Canada
England
London
Lunnun
Borodino
Russia
Warsaw
Graham
Bank of France
Stockton
Paris
Theodore Slock
Sir Walter Scott
14Th Hussars
India
Paganini
Marquis
Delmatia
Marshal Soult
I’rance
Versailes
St. Cloud
France
Earl of Dartmouth
Dartmouth College
N. H
Caradori Allen
Ellen Tree
Mr. Catherwood
Stephens
Central America
Catherwood
Palenque
Wm. Legget
New York Park
Leguet
Powers
Florence
Nantucket
Jamnemandes