Meanings of general dispersal in English

It begins with a general dispersal of the Durbar participants:

Chance brought us together for a moment, a very brief moment, to be followed by a general dispersal.

Here is not like New York, here people plan important parties two months in advance, given the general dispersal.

There was a general dispersal.

A general dispersal of the assemblage occurs only in the tragic presence of a falcon, whose murderous deeds are transiently recorded by stray painted feathers.