Besides killing the only American adviser at the base, the rebels systematically burned and bombed every key office, intelligence file and barracks there.

The walls of the lounge were hung with colorful clan banners-reproductions, MacWhannell explained, of the battle standards that were systematically burned after the defeat at Culloden.

Carthage was systematically burned for 17 days; the city walls, and its buildings were utterly destroyed.

Many villages were systematically burned.

Until mid-May, fighters and civilians perished in combat or in the systematically burned ghetto buildings.

Their situation was very difficult as the British had stripped the veld of food and supplies and had systematically burned Boer farms and homes to deny the guerrillas shelter.

Virtually everything in these counties was then systematically burned to the ground.

Most people who really know the park do not believe that the 40,000 to 50,000 acres necessary to offset an event like this summer's could be burned systematically each year.

He ordered the entire ghetto to be systematically burned down and blown up building by building, and all of Warsaw's Jews to be killed or deported to extermination camps.

They wiped out five Tolnedran legions and then systematically burned every ship in their harbor.