“We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the ships, we’ve got the money too” — and then, in a rousing tutti: “The Russians shall not have Constantinople” The men and the ships, propelled by the money, anchored within firing range of the Russians, stayed there for six months, and Russia in fact did not get Constantinople nor even the territory stipulated in the Treaty of San Stefano, which did not go that far.
