Going to the Congress

“[With Fun’s apologies to Mr. Millais ‘Hugenots’]”

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1923)

Fun 28 (12 June 1878): 5

Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust web version of a copy in the Princeton University library.

Disraeli is setting off to the Congress of Berlin, for which see below. — George P. Landow

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The 1878 Congress of Berlin

Wikipedia explains this international conference as follows:

The Congress of Berlin (13 June–13 July 1878) was a meeting of the representatives of the Great Powers of the time (Russia, Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Germany),[1] four Balkan states (Greece, Serbia, Romania and Montenegro) and the Ottoman Empire, aiming at determining the territories of the states in the Balkan peninsula following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. The Congress came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Berlin, which replaced the preliminary Treaty of San Stefano signed three months earlier between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

Last modified 4 February 2016