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  1. Oct 2024
    1. siege and capitulation of Charleston

      Armies would lay siege to heavily fortified areas, usually castles or cities, to force thier enemy into submission by cutting them off from the rest of thier army and slowly starving them out.

    2. plundered

      Basically looting

    3. Colonel M’Girth and his soldiers

      Colonel is a military rank.

    4. inmates could expect no mercy.

      Who were the inmates, what crimes did they commit?