Sentence examples for it was pillaged from inspiring English sources

Napoleon even named it "the Jerusalem of the North". In 1654, Vilnius was occupied by Russian forces, and it was pillaged and burned, while its population was massacred.

Though it was pillaged and occupied several times during its history, Sarlat was never razed or substantially rebuilt, meaning its medieval character has barely changed.

It was pillaged by Sir Francis Drake in 1578.

It was pillaged and burned by the British during the American Revolution.

At Pier 84, at West 44th Street, large paving stones heave upward in two places, while a two-year-old playground at Pier 25 looks as if it was pillaged.

The fourth object, a Qing dynasty vase also believed to have been stolen from the Old Summer Palace when it was pillaged by invading British and French troops in 1860, was sold at Sotheby's this afternoon for an equally astounding $2.7 million to an unidentified Beijing antiquities company.

Unseated rulers were sometimes killed, more often exiled, but always their wealth — that part of it not sent out of the country — was pillaged in its turn.

"They say it's outrageous that I'm pillaging all these national treasures," Mr. Greco said.

The city was pillaged, and its mosques and walls were torn down.

The tomb was pillaged and torched by Palestinian protesters hours after its evacuation.

Vien Chan was pillaged and destroyed.