The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.

Economic difficulties caused by the looting and destruction during the 1996 and 1997 mutinies, energy crises, and government mismanagement continued to trouble Patassé's government through 2000.

The 1979 hurricanes caused over 40 deaths, 2, 500 injuries, and extensive destruction of housing and crops.

Finally, the fact that the Rising had caused a great deal of death and destruction also contributed towards antagonism toward the rebels.

China instituted a ban on logging, beginning in 1998, due to the destruction caused by clearcutting.

The 2010 edition introduces a significantly different backstory that attributes the destruction of civilization to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider, which caused multiple realities to exchange features in an event known as " The Big Mistake ".

The enormous social disruption over three decades caused a dramatic decline in population because of killings, disease, crop failures, declining birth rates and random destruction, and the out-migration of terrified people.

Ashkenazi orthodox Jews still recite a prayer in memory of the death and destruction caused by the Crusades.

In the 13th century the Mongol horde passed through and caused massive destruction in the area.

According to the Epistle of Sherira Gaon, after the tremendous upheaval caused by the destruction of the Temple and the Bar Kochba revolt, the Oral Torah was in danger of being forgotten.

Dhritarāshtra sometimes asks questions and doubts and sometimes laments, knowing about the destruction caused by the war, to his sons, friends and kinsmen.

The plan looked to the future, and did not focus on the destruction caused by the war.

North and South both suffered from the massive destruction caused during the Korean War.

Dam failures caused by earthquakes could cause tremendous death and destruction downstream, particularly on the densely populated Gangetic Plain.

Several of the plots were uncovered and prevented while others caused various infrastructure damage, deaths, or other destruction.

This new violence also closed the economically vital Congo-Ocean Railway, caused great destruction and loss of life in southern Brazzaville and in the Pool, Bouenza, and Niari regions, and displaced hundreds of thousands of persons.

These instincts of destruction and the feelings of terror which they caused, prompted mankind to call them the Bydo Empire.

The destruction caused by the fighting and the longer-term consequences of the introduction of modern materials, machinery and western cultural artefacts, transformed traditional isolated island ways of life.

Heavy destruction was caused by the Allied and the German bombings in 1943.

French philosopher Voltaire criticised Leibniz's concept of theodicy in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ( Poem on the Lisbon disaster ), suggesting that the massive destruction of innocent lives caused by the Lisbon earthquake demonstrated that God was not providing the " best of all possible worlds ".

Much of the destruction of civilian lives and property was caused by the cruelty and greed of mercenary soldiers.

Also, the destruction caused by mercenary soldiers defied description ( see Schwedentrunk ).

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.

At this point it should be painfully obvious that cities, being `` soft '', and the people within them are ideally suited to destruction by nuclear weapons.

They are not susceptible to wholesale destruction by ballistic missile.

Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man's own action.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

Unlike ethanol, methanol is extremely toxic: As little as 10 ml can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve and 30 ml ( one fluid ounce ) is potentially fatal.

Ahab himself was not a wicked person, but he was easily influenced by his wife, and this led to his destruction.

Thus 6th century Gallo-Romans of Gregory's class, surrounded by the ruins of Roman temples and public buildings, attributed the destruction they saw to the plundering raids of the Alemanni.

Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

The full destruction of the Gepid kingdom was completed by the Avars, who overcame the Gepids in the east.

The destruction of the whole Theban army is said to only have been averted by the ability of Epaminondas, who was serving in the campaign, but not as general.

The aim of the restoration was to reverse the decay of centuries of attrition, pollution, destruction by acts of war, and misguided past restorations.

The destruction of the Assyrian capitals of Nineveh and Assur by the Babylonians, Medes and their allies ensured that much of the bilingual elite ( but not all ) were wiped out.

* 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.

The RAND Corporation's Memorandum 5446-ISA / ARPA states: " the fact that the VC obtain most of their food from the neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops ... if they ( the VC ) are to be hampered by the crop destruction program, it will be necessary to destroy large portions of the rural economy – probably 50 % or more ".

*# The division of mankind threatens it with destruction ... Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization ...

Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.