Great Fire of New York of 1776 - Ilustração de stock

Vintage illustration features the Great Fire of New York in 1776. Less than a week before the fire, the British army marched into New York unopposed. Several buildings were engulfed in flames, citizens were beaten by Redcoats, and African slaves started looting. Historians have never been able to determine who started the Great Fire but one theory states that the rebel American patriots started the fire in order to counter the British occupation and prevent them from using New York as a base of operations.