The Cheeky Chick

John Tenniel, artist

Swain, engraver

Punch (3 October 1885)

Alexander the Little. “My! What a Row I’m Making> ”

Turkey, which owes a great deal of money to European lenders, loses territories after the European powers slice off Bulgaria. Turkey, which proved itself too weak to protect Egypt, nominally its province, from Russia had already in effect ceded it to England.

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