>
>>Worse news; it's not even original. Similar accounts (believable?
>>not always) exist of the same being done by Mongols, Tatars,
>>Teutonic Knights, Berbers, French Legionnaires, Soviets, etc, etc.
>
>Umm, systematically killing farm animals while sacking a town? The
>Mongols and the others never adopted _that_ as their trademark as far
>as I know. Blatant butchery of humans, yes, but taking it out on the
>animals is something else again!
I meant killing everything. I imagine as an object lesson it was even more
common
than we find recorded.
Oh yeah, there's one i forgot to mention, supported by a rather widely
available source: the Jews at Jericho. Killed every man woman child dog cat
and rat,
if memory serves.
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