Total Destruction of Infrastructure

in the campaign “Armed Uprising on the Plain, General Douglas's Expedition, and the Rout of Colonel Koch's Punitive Detachment (1732)”

The Regular Army of the Russian Empire physically eliminated a highlander settlement: historian Sh. B. Akhmadov states that the detachment under the command of Colonel Koch «entered the village of Chechen on July 7, burned it down completely, and began hastily withdrawing»[1].

ID: C1132.T0105
Start: January 1732
End: December 1732
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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