A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross
Thomas Davies · 1758
Why it's great
British ships and soldiers burn an Acadian settlement on the Saint John River in 1758, during the Seven Years' War. The engraving after the soldier-artist Thomas Davies shows smoke hanging over the water.
🏛️ Part of history
The Seven Years' War & the End of New France (1754–1763) — British ships and soldiers burn an Acadian settlement on the Saint John River in 1758, during the Seven Years' War.
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Thomas Davies was a British army officer and artist born in Shooter's Hill, near London, in 1737. He served in Canada and the American colonies and made watercolors of what he saw, which are some of the earliest views of North America. He died in Blackheath in 1812.
