 Complete the following phrase:  There were numerous instances in which towns paid to avoid being plundered, an example being Salzburg which, under paid a ransom to Bavaria to prevent its being sacked during the Thirty Years War. As late as the Peninsular War 180814, it was the belief of the English soldiers that a town taken by storm was liable to sack for three days, and they acted on their conviction at Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz and 