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

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.

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

The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua Guatemala.

At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered, although if the events of the novel are to tie in with later events in the TV series it must be assumed that Gallifrey was at some point restored, only to be destroyed again during the events of the Time War.

However, Portuguese settlers destroyed the trade and began a series of wars which left the empire in near collapse in the early 17th century.

The cities of the Roman Empire had been partially destroyed in the series of wars of the 5th and 6th centuries.

Finally, from 1997 – 2000, a series of metaplot events destroyed the Council of Nine's Umbral steadings, killing many of their most powerful members.

Only one of this first series ( and very few of the following three in which he did not appear ) has survived, the rest of the original disc recordings having apparently been destroyed or discarded as no longer usable, so there is almost no record of his work as a radio " Goon ".

* X-Men Adventures-Originally based on the X-Men animated series, this universe went on to feature more original stories, and in its final issue, revealed itself to be the universe which existed prior to the current 616 reality, when it was destroyed by the fracturing of the M ' Kraan crystal.

Rather than agree to this, the production team decided to find a new house, and the first episode of the second series was rewritten to have the Meldrews ' house destroyed in a fire.

The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of Papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of Pope Zachary.

There is an imposing series of Victorian terraces to the west of the naval memorial which previously continued to the Grand Hotel and, until it was destroyed by bombing, the grand clubhouse of the Royal Western Yacht Club.

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

Between 1948 and 1967, a series of military coups destroyed the stability of the government and any remaining professionalism within the armed forces.

To exonerate the Soviets, the series casts even less important Allies, like the Poles, in the bad light, even repeating Nazi propaganda claims such as the Tuchola Forest myth or false claims about the Polish Air Force being destroyed on the ground.

* The Russian Revolution ( 1917 ) is the collective term for the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

Sparta achieved a series of land victories, but many of her ships were destroyed at the battle of Cnidus by a Greek-Phoenician mercenary fleet that Persia had provided to Athens.

On February 15, 1944 the abbey was almost completely destroyed in a series of heavy American led air-raids.

An extremely capable and daring military commander, Edward destroyed the House of Lancaster in a series of spectacular military victories ; he was never defeated on the field of battle.

After Hood's Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at the Battle of Nashville, Forrest distinguished himself by commanding the Confederate rear guard in a series of actions that allowed what was left of the army to escape.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

A series of minor actions thus completely destroyed the great concentration.

The RLB soon destroyed whatever moral authority its decisions might have had in a series of decisions.

Harry Potter has owned two broomsticks, the Nimbus 2000 and the Firebolt, both of which are destroyed by series end.