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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1778/06/00 During the summer at Coxheath, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and Lady George Sutton have riding habits created in the style of their husbands' militia uniforms.
1778/06/00 South Hampton Militia and 15,000 home troops camp over a 3 mile stretch of pasture near Coxheath, Kent. The troop will exercise and drill until early November.
1778/07/00 Lady Clermont, Lady Jersey, Lady Melbourne and Mrs Crewe all show their support for the militia at Coxheath by dressing 'en militaire' in their husbands' style.
1778/07/00 Lady Worsley shows off a redingote in the style of her husband's South Hampshire militia while camped with him at Coxheath.
1778/07/00 Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire appears everyday at the head of the beauteous Amazons on Coxheath, who are all dressed en militaire, in the regimentals that distinguish the several regiments in which their Lords, etc serve, - Morning Post
1778/08/00 Joshua Reynolds Artist In the summer, Joshua Reynolds visits Coxheath to see the lavish spectacle of the militia camp. Reynolds mostly probably met with his friend Richard Worsley and saw lady Worsley in her new riding outfit. Portrait of Lady Worsley (painting)

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The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce (book) History Book Hallie Rubenhold That summer of 1778, from June until the beginning of November, a network of Kentish fields outside Maidstone became the site of one of the eighteenth century's most impressive military spectacles.

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