Questions tagged [loot]
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Are there any cases of rewarding an enemy commander for sparing a city from looting?
According to Wikipedia, after the Battle of Lübeck (1806)
[...] the city became the target of large-scale looting and rampage by the French soldiers. [Marshal] Bernadotte, struggling desperately to ...
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Did loot from the 4th Crusade turn up in interesting places?
The horses of St. Mark were taken to Venice. Are there any other objects that are known to have turned up elsewhere?
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Did the Romans melt down looted golden objects or did they keep them intact?
The most famous such object is, of course, the Menorah which is reported to have surfaced up later in Constantinople via Carthage, so it seems to have been kept intact.
But I am wondering if there ...
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