Beggar my Neighbour mb-code 1619836 'Buy a Bird Cage

'Buy a Bird Cage

View of Shaftesbury House including Shaftesbury Academy

including a mounted guard and horse drawn vehicles

Bruce Foxton

Beggar my Neighbour mb-code 1619836 'Buy a Bird CageBeggar my Neighbour, 1861. Napoleon III, in a game of cards with Palmerston, has laid what he believes to be a trump in the shape of the French ship 'La Gloire'. Palmerston, however, has a higher trump in the form of the more technologically advanced British ship, 'Warrior'. Each man has a sack full of funds on the floor at his feet. The implication is that, no matter how much the French were to invest in their navy, the British would always remain