Retaliatory City Bombing, WWII

Coventry, Exeter and Lübeck, the Queen of the Hanseatic League

In the late 1100s, as Europe began to throw off the economic constraints of feudalism, a group of semi-autonomous cities in northern Germany joined together in a loose confederation to assert control over the Baltic Sea trading route.

Comprised of merchant guilds and wealthy families living in urban centers and port towns, the Hanseatic League developed …