Picture No | 10010535 |
Date | 17th century |
Description | Bale Fire of Beacon Warning of Attack |
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The Bale Fire is a series of fires, used to pass on an alarm throughout a district : here, settlers in the American colonies warn others of an attack of Native Americans
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Source | unnamed artist in Horace E Scudder, Mr Bodley Abroad page 37 (1880) |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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