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The Tartars defeated the Poles at the Battle of Legnica and destroyed most of Kraków, leaving only the castle and St. Andrew’s Church intact.
Officials now admit that, in March 1991, troops were exposed to low levels of the nerve gas sarin when an Army battalion destroyed an Iraqi ammunitions depot.
Indeed, the capital has been having a continuing debate about its past--what to revere and what to demolish--for years now, and has destroyed a good many places with real claims to historical value, places as old as the White House, with bricks from the same brickyard.
On the outskirts of town, Fort George, the British garrison on the Niagara frontier during the 1812 War, destroyed by the Americans, was restored in the 1940s.
The Italian city of Pompeii, destroyed by a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79, faces further destruction, this time from tourism.