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Anti-Cromwell demonstration

Scene at Almack's Assembly Rooms

August 1966

showing three women

Great Lion Show mb-code 1238752 Anti-Cromwell demonstration'Great Lion Show', 1868. Sir Robert Napier is shown standing on the right of this cartoon. He had recently fought a victorious campaign in Abyssinia against King Theodore which had resulted in the British captives held by the King being freed. The decisive battle had been fought at Magdala and, upon his return home, Sir Robert was created Lord Napier of Magdala and given a pension of two thousand pounds per annum. The one shilling must be a reference

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