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[1] John Adcock, "Frederick Barnard and John Gordon Thompson of FUN," Yesterday's Papers, accessed December 10, 2017, http://john-adcock.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/John%20Gordon%20Thomson.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Edmund Yorke, Playing the Great Game: Britain, War and Politics in Afghanistan since 1839 (London: Robert Hale, 2012), 294.
[4] Rebecca Fraser, The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006), 587.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Robert T. Harrison, Britain in the Middle East: 1619-1971 (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), 56.
[7] Fraser, Story of Britain, 587.
[8] The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, "Anglo-Afghan Wars," Encyclopædia Britannica, July 25, 2012, accessed March 25, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anglo-Afghan-Wars.
[9] Byron Farwell, Queen Victoria's Little Wars (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 205.
[10] Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, "Anglo-Afghan Wars."
[11] Yorke, Great Game, 294-308.
[12] Henry J. Miller, "Mirroring Acts: Benjamin Disraeli, John Tenniel, and the Victorian Political Cartoon" Nineteenth Century Studies no. 23 (2009), 40.
[13] Charles Press, The Political Cartoon (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981), 45.
[14] Antoinette Burton, An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
[15] Ibid.

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