The Niobe of Nations mb-width 4520 A speedway race

A speedway race

occupied by the conspirators who were plotting to assassinate the British Cabinet in 1820

Jefferson Davis for the Southern States on the left

as a storehouse for sticks

The Niobe of Nations mb-width 4520 A speedway race'The Niobe of Nations', 1870. A weeping Frances gathers her sisters, Paris, Metz and Lyons around her, Paris defiant to the last. Niobe, in Greek mythology, died of grief when her 12 children were killed. She was turned to stone by Zeus. This relates to the one of the final acts of France's war against Prussia. Metz had been surrendered to the Prussians. The drunken and cowardly behaviour of the French troops led to their general being charged with