The destruction of the undefended city of little strategic importance had been ordered by Colonel James Montgomery (colonel).

Troops were landed on 4 August, and by 8 August the undefended city of Batavia capitulated.

Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities.

Before this could be done the Comuneros in turn stormed the virtually undefended city and requested her support.

If he does not take the bait and seizes the undefended city instead, then he denies us the water and grazing.

Far overhead, a "gunboat," a bombardment ship, was attacking the undefended, unoffending city with its great beam gun.

Despite this initial success and the prospect of a virtually undefended city immediately to his front, Smith decided to wait until dawn to resume his attack.

On the 26th of January, Li was notified by allied Korean scouts that the Japanese forces had withdrawn from Seoul and it was now an undefended city.

Damietta's inhabitants fled the undefended city, which was plundered for two days and then torched by the Byzantines.

He wondered at the military mind that would bomb an undefended city with no military value but which might contain some loot that they so valued.