What can be done with a city destroyed by war?
All they will know is that an American city has been destroyed.
On 3 June 1725 the city was destroyed by a great fire.
"God is going to destroy the entire city in the space of one hour."
In 1668 the city was almost completely destroyed by a fire.
A million people died and some 800 cities were destroyed.
The city was almost completely destroyed by the end of the war.
On the 5th of September, 1726, a fire destroyed the entire city.
It must have destroyed the whole city, perhaps the island.
The city itself was virtually destroyed by fire in 1938-39.