In the early 1800s the first dance at a ball would most likely have been a minuet with country dances to follow. By the mid 1800s a quadrille would have been the usual choice for the first dance and would have been followed by a series of dances that might have included waltzes, galops and polkas.
– source: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
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