1782, The Year A Caterpillar Outbreak Terrified London
1782, The Year A Caterpillar Outbreak Terrified LondonLondon in the early 1780s was a tumultuous place. At the start of the decade, anti-Catholic riots, known as the Gordon Riots, had caused chaos in the city, leaving hundreds dead and many parts of the city in cinders. Across the Atlantic, the American Revolution was in full swing, so political attention was trained on the New World. Then,...
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