Sentences with phrase «destroyed during the civil war»

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

However its interior was destroyed during the Civil War in 1936.

Although being overwhelmed city by pirates, destroyed during civil wars and set on fire by the American filibuster William Walker in 1856, it remains one of Nicaragua's most beautiful cities.

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During one battle of the Civil War, the town around the Big Oak was almost completely destroyed; the tree was among the few things left standing.