• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      2 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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        23 hours 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.