tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post2766080190450758980..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Washington Appeals the VerdictUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-46834103677891544242011-09-04T14:14:38.345-05:002011-09-04T14:14:38.345-05:00Washington seems to have felt that looting would a...Washington seems to have felt that looting would alienate a part of the population whose loyalty/neutrality he hoped to keep or win over, or that it disrupted the discipline of the army, or that it was simply distasteful. As he noted in his letter to the Congress, there were not specific rules in the Continental Army’s articles of war against looting, so clearly a lot of other people didn’t see it as such a problem.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-36971490202802863762011-09-04T09:50:33.966-05:002011-09-04T09:50:33.966-05:00Wow, I just assumed most generals and officers loo...Wow, I just assumed most generals and officers looked the other way when it came to looting.R.B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11139417019587730206noreply@blogger.com