The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

Reconstruction from Mitch was still underway when, in early 2001, the country experienced a series of devastating earthquakes that left nearly 2, 000 people dead or missing, 8, 000 injured, and caused severe dislocations across all sectors of Salvadoran society.

It gave rise to a series of devastating wars among the tribes, including the Yamasee War.

During the siege, Grant coordinated a series of devastating campaigns launched by William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, and George Thomas.

* Hawkeye as in Hawkeye Pierce for someone who can make light of a most devastating situation, from the TV series M * A * S * H

This fire tower replaced a series of observation buildings, the original being a flimsy lookout stand built in 1870 on the same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 1871, August 1872 and January 1874 that swept through the early mining camp.

European contacts had devastating effects on the Chumash Indians, including a series of disease epidemics that drastically reduced Chumash population.

After a series of devastating floods in the past five years, the city is in the process of moving its entire downtown area ( the area originally encompassing Harman, which lies in a flood plain ) to the southernmost point in the city at the foot of East River Mountain.

With the government nearly bankrupt, and series of devastating structural fires that swept through the downtown area and nearly took down every high rise the city had so feverishly built, the city was nearly destroyed.

* In a series of five ground-breaking mortality surveys between 2000 and 2007, the IRC documented the devastating impact of the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In 1921, present day Malappuram district witnessed a series of devastating revolts and massacres known as the Moplah rebellions, followed by decades of frozen economical, social, and political development.

The series focused on, among other things, portrayal of the devastating human experiences of the conflict ; how life and death throughout the war years affected soldiers, sailors and airmen, civilians, the tragic victims of tyranny and, above all, concentration camp inmates.

She immediately stood out on the series, partly thanks to her regular role as the anchor on the show's fake newscasts, but also due to her comedic skills ( particularly a devastating impression of Nancy Reagan ) and her remarkably good looks.

The Civil War was devastating to farms, church buildings and institutions, but it was marked by a series of strong revivals that began in Lee's army and spread throughout the region.

The early years of Baldwin's rule were marked by a series of devastating Viking raids into Flanders where Little north of the Somme was left untouched.

Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction, including a massive snowstorm in New Delhi, a powerful hailstorm striking Tokyo, Japan, and a series of devastating tornadoes in Los Angeles.

The franchise was New Line's first commercially successful series after a devastating financial slump, leading the company to be nicknamed " The House that Freddy Built ".

As Reynier advanced, the British held their fire, then released a series of devastating volleys at point-blank range.

The increased contact with the rest of the world led to a series of devastating epidemics affecting both humans and livestock.

In the fictional world of Robotech, the Robotech Wars are a series of devastating wars that take place in the first half of the 21st century.

In 1864, Denmark lost the final war ( Second war of Schleswig ) in a series of devastating defeats during which she lost three-fourths of her territory.

The next ( chronologically ) game in the series, Starsiege: Tribes ( 1998 ) sees the conflict between the Blood Eagles, the Children of Phoenix, and other tribes formed by the renegades of these two ( such as the Star Wolf and the Diamond Sword ) escalating into countless blood feuds before finally culminating in the devastating Tribal Wars about 3940.

The General Motors lawsuit and subsequent settlement was arguably the most devastating blow for NBC in a series of reputation damaging incidents during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

* In Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Helsingør fires mortar shells at the heroes in book seven, The Surgeon's Mate, as they sail past on their way to a rendezvous in the Baltic.

A second fire, or series of fires, struck from the German air-raids in April and May 1940, and destroyed about two thirds of the town.

Vostrikov orders a series of diving maneuvers during which he directs Polenin to simulate a number of emergencies including fires and flooding while he times the crew's response.

Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.

Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires ( such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches ), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.

* Telchines appear in the fourth book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Battle of the Labyrinth under the name Telkhines, where they remade the scythe of Kronos in the fires of Mount St. Helens and claim to have made Poseidon's trident.

The Coast Range behind Tillamook was the scene of a repeated series of forest fires called the Tillamook Burn between 1933 and 1951.

Berengaria was sold for scrap in 1938 after a series of fires.

Because the medieval city was largely built of wood and stone houses were the exception, fire was a constant risk and a series of fires in 1517, 1750 and again on 7 May 1862 earned the people from Enschede the nickname Brandstichters ( arsonists ).

A series of fires in the 1860s and 1870s gutted the downtown area.

A series of fires and floods, as well as an earthquake, destroyed the town and filled the Slough with silt during the 1860s.

Also beginning near the Estates, the Witch Fire began October 21, 2007 and was part of a series of fires that ravaged Southern California.

A series of other fires leveled Holland and Manistee, Michigan, as well as Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Chicago on the same day.

A 1918 series of fires that destroyed a block of the town's main street was attributed to anti-German crusaders.

Due to a series of arson and fires beginning in the 1970s, Antlers lost a number of its stores, changing the character of its downtown.

The mill operations closed in 1984, after a series of fires.

A series of fires in the early 1890s, probably set to collect insurance on unprofitable properties, destroyed many of the new business establishments.

A series of fires destroyed East Charleston May 18, 1921, and West Charleston on the following day.

However, a series of disastrous fires, the first in 1900 and then two more in 1914, virtually wiped out the business district, depriving the Town of much of its earliest architectural heritage.

Luna Park closed in 1946 after a series of fires, and the New York street gang problems of the 1950s spilled into Coney Island.