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Updated: June 25, 2025

During the great races at Ascot, the crowd breaking through the barriers and insisting upon Bluecher's showing himself, the prince-regent came forward, and, politely telling them that he had not yet arrived, led forward the emperor Alexander, who was loudly cheered, but Bluecher's arrival was greeted with thunders of applause far surpassing those bestowed upon the sovereigns, a circumstance that was afterward blamed by the English papers.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4