Declaration of Independence response

When I was reading the Declaration of Independence, one sentence seemed to just stand out. That sentence was, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” Throughout that entire sentence, it sounded like he was a pirate going along from town to town raiding and pillaging. But this is not the case. The king did not hop on a pirate ship and go to the colonies to raid and pillage. What that sentence really means is that the King had been using the force of his military to control the seas of the colonies, which has caused a loss of trade thus plundering their seas. Ravaging the coast and burning our towns mean this meant by the fact that the British terrorized the colonists with their might and during the war burnt down their homes literally. Finally what destroying the lives of our people means is self-explanatory, the British army did kill many colonists during the war and even before that. And that is what is meant by, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”