Pillage

in the campaign “Covert reconnaissance of Chechnya by Rosen's topographers and the devastation of Zandak by Pullo's detachment: capture of 31 inhabitants and seizure of livestock (1835-1836)”

On August 23, 1836, during the destruction of the aul of Zandak, the detachment of Colonel Pullo, commander of the Sunzha fortified line, appropriated the property and livestock of the inhabitants. Corps commander Rosen reported to the Minister of War: "our troops received as booty the property of the inhabitants and 384 head of cattle"[1].

ID: C1156.T0164
Technique:  Pillage
Start: January 1835
End: August 1836
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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