2-704-019 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Looking for Admiral Byng', 1897. British admiral John John Byng (1704-1757) was shot on board the Monarque, at Spithead, for Misbehaviour before the French Fleet in the Mediterranean. He was court-martialled and executed for failing to do his utmost during the Battle of Minorca. From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]