2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/29/2022
Punch Cartoon, removed from 1862 volume, 13-3/4 x 10-1/2" titled "Jonathan's Programme, or a Bit of Brag," America warns France, "Tell yer what it is Louis - if you come meddlin' with any o' your mediation sarce, soon as ever I've whipped the Rebels - and walked into Canada - and chawed up John Bull - darn'd if I don't put that thar young man in your location ! ! ! From the outset of the American Civil War, France and Great Britain had agreed to act in concert regarding possible recognition of the Confederacy. Emperor Napoleon III was inclined to intervene in favor of the South, hoping for a joint action to break the Union naval blockade, but hesitated to take too obvious a lead in forcing the issue.
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