• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    27 days ago

    Some, after city walls were breached and the citadel refused to surrender. More often, though, at the point troops were in the streets, it was all over but the crying (and looting).

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      26 days ago

      More often, though, at the point troops were in the streets, it was all over but the crying (and looting)

      The looting, of course, being a critical part of a soldier’s incentive to join up.