The Great Fire of London
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The Response to the Great Fire of London
A French watchmaker Robert Hubert confesses to being a spy. He says he started the fire at Westminster but when he learns it started a pudding lane he changes his story stating that he threw a grenade through the bakery window. There's definitely some cognitive dissonance at play here. Most people knew where it started but they needed someone to blame in a poor man named Robert Hubert. With three members of Farina's family on the jury, poor Hubert is found guilty and hanged at Taibern. In 1677 a monument is built to commemorate the fire. 202 feet tall and 202 feet from the site of the bakery in Pudding Lane the column could be seen throughout the city
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