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The Fire of London
In the course of the fire, there are some very ugly scenes during those four days. People turned in the streets on anybody with a foreign accent - which turned out to be the French. We have records of French being beaten up in the streets and a blacksmith with an iron bar hitting random Frenchmen in the street over the head. The Dutch viewed as responsible because we were at war with the Dutch. And we had just set fire to their merchant ships. When you say blame, though, who's to blame? One of the immediate reactions is that London is to blame, that the city is to blame. It's become Sodom and Gomorrah. This is still a