I have associated with my narrative of the French conquest of Tunis the title of Punic War, partly from the fact of the invasion having taken place on the spot which once witnessed three famous contests of antiquity so called, and partly on account of the consistent _Punica fides_[1] displayed in the web of tortuous diplomacy which has practically put an end to Tunisian independence. If my reader will open the _Almanach de Gotha_ for 1881, at page 1029, he will find the following passage:—…
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