The Remnant of an Army! Size:L: 80 x 60cm is beating his disabled horse

is beating his disabled horse savagely

He apparently represents an amalgamation of the characters and tragic fates of three Assyrian rulers and was the last of a line of 30 kings of Assyria

Scene with women

View of the Royal Military Asylum

Leeds' Jack Charlton changes his shirt

The Remnant of an Army! Size:L: 80 x 60cm is beating his disabled horseThe Remnant of an Army!, 1879. The Army Discipline Bill, with his cat o' nine tails sticking out of his pocket, sits on his weary horse. Partly due to the Obstructionist tactics of a number of Irish MPs in particular, the parliamentary session of 1879 had been most unproductive. Indeed, in Punch's view, the Army Discipline Bill 'was the chief Government measure of importance introduced in the House of Commons this session which reached its goal'. From