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The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras is an oil painting on canvas from 1875, painted by Elizabeth Thompson.She became better known as Lady Butler after her marriage to William Butler in 1877.
The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras by Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler) The regiment returned to the Peninsula in January 1810. [ 12 ] It saw action at the Battle of Barrosa in March 1811, [ 13 ] the Battle of Albuera in May 1811 [ 14 ] and the Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos in October 1811, [ 15 ] as well as the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813 [ 16 ...
A butler in the White House Butler's Pantry.. A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household.In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry.
Lady Butler developed a reputation for her military pictures after the favourable reception of this painting. It was followed by a series of military paintings, Quatre Bras in 1875, and then two more Crimean paintings, Balaclava and Inkermann , exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1876 and 1877.
Butler's Rangers (1777–1784) was a Loyalist provincial military unit of the American Revolutionary War, raised by American loyalist John Butler.Most members of the regiment were Loyalists from upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania.
Court uniform came into being in the early nineteenth century. Two orders of dress are prescribed: full dress and levée dress. The full-dress uniform consists of a dark blue high-collar jacket with gold oak-leaf embroidery on the chest, cuffs and long tails; white breeches and stockings; and a cocked hat edged with ostrich feathers.
Red coat, also referred to as redcoat or scarlet tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by most regiments of the British Army, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche for the soldiers themselves.
Elizabeth Southerden Thompson (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933), later known as Lady Butler, [1] was a British painter who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars.