Aggressors may organize armed attacks on the settlements of an Indigenous people for the purpose of looting, seizing material valuables, driving off livestock, and taking civilians captive. This practice depletes the demographic and economic potential of the colonized society, deprives people of the resources needed for survival, and creates a zone of constant physical threat around the metropole's installations. For example, fortifications built by the regular army often became 'a base of operations for their raids on... Chechen auls, for looting and taking the local population captive'[1].
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S0008 | Government |
The government of the Tsardom of Muscovy organized attacks on the territories of the Nokhchi for the mass capture of prisoners: historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov states that in 1718 there took place a "predatory expedition of detachments of Don Cossacks and Kabardian princes allied with Peter I into the 'Chechen uezd' along the Sunzha and the Argun"[2], as a result of which "800 prisoners were captured, not counting 'belongings'"[2]. |
| S0012 | Occupation and Controlled Administrations |
The punitive detachments plundered and enslaved the population: in a petition to Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, the Kabardian prince Sunchaley Yanglychevich Cherkassky reported that they «utterly ruined» the auls «and took many captives»[3]. |
| C1128 | Predatory Expeditions of Cossacks and Allied Princes (1718–1721) |
The government of the Tsardom of Muscovy organized attacks on the territories of the Nokhchi for the mass capture of prisoners: historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov states that in 1718 there took place a "predatory expedition of detachments of Don Cossacks and Kabardian princes allied with Peter I into the 'Chechen uezd' along the Sunzha and the Argun"[2], as a result of which "800 prisoners were captured, not counting 'belongings'"[2]. |
| C1120 | Punitive campaign and the devastation of the Nokhchi mountain communities (1617–1618) |
The punitive detachments plundered and enslaved the population: in a petition to Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, the Kabardian prince Sunchaley Yanglychevich Cherkassky reported that they «utterly ruined» the auls «and took many captives»[3]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The punitive detachments plundered and enslaved the population: in a petition to Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, the Kabardian prince Sunchaley Yanglychevich Cherkassky reported that they «utterly ruined» the auls «and took many captives»[3]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The government of the Tsardom of Muscovy organized attacks on the territories of the Nokhchi for the mass capture of prisoners: historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov states that in 1718 there took place a "predatory expedition of detachments of Don Cossacks and Kabardian princes allied with Peter I into the 'Chechen uezd' along the Sunzha and the Argun"[2], as a result of which "800 prisoners were captured, not counting 'belongings'"[2]. |