Cities became walled, and increased in size as undefended villages in southern Mesopotamia disappeared.

"They'll be bombing a tiny undefended village," he says.

They occupied the undefended villages of Tel et Turmus, Kustineh and Yazur.

They'll be bombing a tiny undefended village, reducing the whole community to rubble.

"You gave him orders to look for resources, to gather children and equipment from undefended villages?"

If I were Cerdic and planned merely to harry the undefended villages on the coast, I could go in any time.

In full possession of the undefended village, the Indians killed fifty head of cattle and set fire to twenty-six houses outside the fort.

The site of the present settlement of Karitane includes that of the pre-European Māori kaik, or undefended village.

Eyewitness accounts indicate that when civilians are killed in these indiscriminate attacks, whether against defended or undefended villages, children, often together with mothers and elderly people, are also killed.

In the eyes of most Imperials, they were the true Cloud League villains-killers of little Carescrian girls and destroyers of undefended villages.