Our “Imperial” Guard
Wood engraving by Swain
Punch (25 May 1878)
Lord B. “You gave often helped us, Madam”
India “And now I am to help you!”
Britannia doesn’t exactly know how she likes it.
The Punch anthology explains, “Lord Beaconsfield [Disraeli] electrified the country by the sudden summoning of a body of Indian troops to Malta for service in Europe in 1878.”