Firing cannons at a city is a perfectly valid election tactic.
Blowing up a city to deny it to a rival? That's downright unsporting!
So I'm afraid we're going to have to kill you. No hard feelings, but you should have understood the distinction. Which you would have if not for your gender. So we can't really blame you for being a woman, which means that I hope there is no hard feelings for the bounty.