some buildings, farm tools, two horses, plows, and hay owned by Bonito Lavato, a friendly interpreter for the company, and Pedro Chavez' hay were stolen or destroyed ; ;

Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

During a siege by Parthian troops in A. D. 257, the buildings in the outermost blocks of the city grid were partially destroyed and filled with rubble to reinforce the city wall.

* 2011 – Very strong cyclone Dagmar cutted the trees, messed the public traffic and destroyed the buildings at Scandinavian countries.

On 24 August 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under metres of ash and lava ; the following year, a fire broke out in Rome which lasted three days and which destroyed a number of important public buildings.

Hundreds of public buildings were damaged or destroyed, and sanitation and water systems in many communities put out service.

The city was heavily damaged ( 65 %) at the end of World War II and thereafter almost totally destroyed, when many of the buildings still standing were taken down by the communists for bricks to be used for rebuilding destroyed Gdańsk and Warsaw.

In 599, an earthquake destroyed buildings throughout Yamato province in what is now Nara Prefecture.

The eastern parts of the city, comprised mostly of wooden buildings, were destroyed completely.

The economy of Grenada was brought to a near standstill in September 2004 by Hurricane Ivan, which damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the country's buildings, including some tourist facilities.

The seaport area was largely destroyed by withdrawing German troops and millions of encircled refugees in 1945 being bombarded by Soviet Military ( 90 % of the buildings and equipment were destroyed ) and the harbour entrance was blocked by the German battleship Gneisenau that had been brought to Gotenhafen for major repairs.

It destroyed three churches, the town hall, and many other buildings, killing 51 people and leaving an estimated 20, 000 homeless.

Many buildings changed use but were not destroyed.

Five synagogues in Tripoli and four in provincial towns were destroyed, and over 1, 000 Jewish residences and commercial buildings were plundered in Tripoli alone.

Built mainly of wood, it was destroyed during the revolt of Boudica in AD 60-61, but was rebuilt and grew to feature many impressive town houses and public buildings.

Many historic buildings in Ireland were destroyed during the war, most famously the Custom House in Dublin, which was disastrously attacked on de Valera's insistence, to the horror of the more militarily experienced Collins.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

By the end of the operation in November, 9, 000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30, 000 people and destroyed 280, 000 buildings.

Earlier buildings were made of wood and were destroyed.

Tensions reached a peak in when four students were shot dead at Trisakti University by security forces ; four days of riots and violence ensued that killed an estimated 1, 200, and destroyed or damaged 6, 000 buildings.

On Kristallnacht in 1938, one of the city's most architecturally significant buildings, the 1855 Moorish Revival Leipzig synagogue was deliberately destroyed.

Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.

The impressive Gründerzeit suburbs north of the city, called the Nordfront, were destroyed as well as the city's main street with its Baroque buildings.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

One might have expected that such a violent epoch of transition would have destroyed the creative flair of a composer, especially one whose works were so fluent and spontaneous.

Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;

However, the wei books were also destroyed in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final proscription in 605.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Making Antioch his base, he marched at the head of his troops towards Ctesiphon, but a second army was destroyed by the Persians, and further losses were incurred by the retreating Romans in Armenia.

Two of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred ’ s forces.

On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been destroyed, whereas other colonies farther away were normal.

Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.

During the first invasion, Thrace, Macedon and the Aegean Islands were added to the Persian Empire, and Eretria was duly destroyed.

The Parthenon colonnades, largely destroyed by Venetian bombardment in the 17th century, were restored, with many wrongly assembled columns now properly placed.

It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

Remarque comments in the preface that " Quiet on the Western Front will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

In his old age Salieri hinted that these works were either purposely destroyed, or had been lost with the exception of a few works for the church.

Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.

During the Reformation, in 1528, its twelve altars and accompanying pictures were destroyed.

In South Vietnam alone, an estimated 10 million hectares ( 25 million acres, 39, 000 square miles ) of agricultural land were ultimately destroyed.

In South Vietnam alone, an estimated 10 million hectares of agricultural land were ultimately destroyed.

For example, in Quang Ngai province, 85 % of the crop lands were scheduled to be destroyed in 1970 alone.

The earlier archbishopric seat in Hamburg had been attacked and destroyed several times, and thereafter the sees of Hamburg and Bremen were combined for protection.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.