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.

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.

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.

A series of devastating fires struck the port city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early in the 19th century.

* 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 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.

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.

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

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

The procedure is described in a series of papers from the early 1970s by Bruce Ames and his group at the University of California, Berkeley.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

The spelling of his name was changed after the beginning of the series ; his nameplate and office door spells his surname " McVicar " in early episodes.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

A Beano Poster Comic series was also printed in the early 1990s.

In older literature the Cretaceous is sometimes divided into three series: Neocomian ( lower / early ), Gallic ( middle ) and Senonian ( upper / late ).

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

He would later become best known for the Home Alone series of the early 1990s.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

In early August the Cubs swept the Mets in a 4-game home series that further distanced them from the pack.

The heavily favored Cubs took an early lead in Game 1, but James Loney's grand slam off Ryan Dempster changed the series ' momentum.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

Comic storylines had been popular in the series in the 1960s but had become sparse during the early 1970s.

series of documentaries was a director on the programme in the early 1960s.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

In late 1989 and early 1990, Mobutu was weakened by a series of domestic protests, by heightened international criticism of his regime's human rights practices, by a faltering economy, and by government corruption, most notably his massive embezzlement of government funds for personal use.

ARC also published a large percentage of the early Request For Comments, an ongoing series of publications that document the evolution of ARPANET into the Internet.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

At the series outset, the producers felt that his character would be too over-the-top for viewers and planned to drop him after his debut, but early test screenings showed that he was popular with the audience.

The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.