MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Sumner_Lion.png (1401x1392) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Sumner Lion.png en Charles Sumner puts his head in the gaping mouth of a lion while holding papers relating to the investigation that U S violated its neutral obligations by selling arms to France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 In his pocket are papers relating to U S claims against Great Britain for violating its neutral obligations by outfitting privateers during the Civil War Alabama claims Carl Schurz looks on anxiously in the background Harper's Weekly Creator Thomas Nast March 9 1872 p 200 Caption PUTTING HIS HEAD IN THE BRITISH LION'S MOUTH Why did he seek this counsel It was to prove that our Government had violated its neutral obligations to Germany to embroil us in a diplomatic difficulty with that Power and to prejudice our own case with the tribunal at Geneva by showing that we sinned as gravely against Germany as England sinned against us in the time of the Rebellion ” N Y Herald Feb 21 1872 PD-old-100 Caricatures of Carl Schurz Charles Sumner Thomas Nast 1872 in the United States 1872 cartoons 1870s political cartoons of the United States Drawings of lions People with lions in art | ||||
