When the defeated won’t surrender this happens. It was ever so...Aleppo just now, Grozny, before that.
Well, considering he marched down the street past my house on the way to the mountain and railroad tracks past Marietta, but burned only the houses, towns, plantations and cities south and east of me, he wasn’t a war criminal in “my neighborhood” this side of Atlanta.
Those south and east of town might disagree.