Total Destruction of Infrastructure

in the campaign “Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich (1709)”

Complete destruction of the Sich's buildings and neighboring fortifications: "the neighboring kurins were also burned and slaughtered"; "All the buildings were destroyed, as Menshikov wrote: 'To lay waste all their places, so that this treasonous nest be utterly uprooted'"[1].

ID: C0014.T0105
Start: January 1709
End: May 1709
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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