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Mary, Putney Heath to Mary, Wrest Park Extracts from letters sent by Grantham to Henrietta. He visited the battle ground at Waterloo, and found all the bodies, and horse carcasses had been buried or burned. He comments, "...everyone agrees there was never so severe a fight in the world before. There was no sort of protection, natural or artificial; and the Battle was really who could hit the hardest". He then travelled by coach to Cambray, Peronne and Senlis. They arrived at the head Quarters in Gonesse, and were greeted by the Duke of Wellington who gave them details of the battle. On the journey to Paris the villas they passed had been plundered and gutted by the Prussians. The British army, lead by the Duke of Wellington, entered Paris on 7 July , however the Parisians seem "cold and sullen and much down in the mouth at their recent humiliation". They have moved into a house at Neuilly.

14 Jul 1815

From: 1815 To: 1815

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Lucas,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Yorke, Amabel,
Grantham, Mary Jemima, Baroness,
Yorke, Mary Jemima,
de Grey of Wrest, Thomas Philip Weddell, 2nd Earl,
de Grey, Henrietta Frances,
Cole, Henrietta Frances,
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

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