Port Huron Fire of 1871 erupted in Illinois, and the Peshtigo Fire burned a large tract in Wisconsin, including the city of Peshtigo. Windsor, Ontario met a similar fate four days later. Much of the area burned by the Port Huron Fire was swept by another deadly conflagration 10 years later, under similar conditions. Port Huron Fire of 1871 The Port Huron Fire of Sunday October 8, 1871 (one of a series of fires known collectively as the Great Fire of 1871 or the Great Michigan Fire) burned a number of cities including White Rock and Port Huron, and much of the countryside in the
The Disasters of War of War"s first two groups of prints, Goya largely departs from the imaginative, synthetic approach of "Caprichos" to realistically depict life-and-death scenes of war. In the last group, the "Caprichos" sense of the fantastic returns. Between 1815 and 1816, Goya produced the "Tauromachia", a series of 33 bullfighting scenes, during a break from "The Disasters of War". "Tauromachia" was not politically sensitive, and was published at the end of 1816 in an edition of 320—for sale individually or in sets—without incident. It did not meet with critical or commercial success. In France, Goya completed a set of four larger lithographs,