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Moreover, the film's foreshadowing of Chinese atrocities (as reflected by a dream in which the Dalai Lama sees his native village being pillaged and monks shot) reflects the historical facts all too well.
They sailed upon the river port of Silves and, ignoring conditional offers of surrender, slew all the inhabitants (at no small loss to themselves) and pillaged the great treasures of the city.
Meanwhile, army troops and civilians alike pillaged the capital city of Abidjan.
Based on a hitherto little-known 1923 incident in which a white mob pillaged a black Florida town, Rosewood is deemed important as history but insignificant as art.
To the common man, wars were just another hardship, taking sons away from the farm to fight, while the armies — French as much as foreign — ravaged the land or pillaged the towns.