Scorched earth operations

military strategy

Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565

1812 fire in Moscow, Russia

1864 military campaign of the American Civil War

order issued by Hitler in March 1945 to destroy German infrastructure

1462 battle between Vlad III's Wallachia and Mehmed II's Ottoman Empire

theatre of WWI that involved the British, French and Belgian invasion of the German colony of Kamerun from August 1914 to March 1916

A chevauchée (, "promenade" or "horse charge", depending on context) was a raiding method of medieval warfare for weakening the enemy, primarily by burning and pillaging enemy territory in order to reduce the productivity of a region, in addition to siege warfare most often as part of wars of conquest but occasionally as a punitive raid. The use of the chevauchée declined at the end of the 14th century as the focus of warfare turned to sieges. It is conceptually similar to the scorched earth strategies used in modern warfare.

1942 battle of World War II

military expedition into European Scythia by Achaemenid king Darius I in 513 BCE.

series of campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–70

Japanese Scorched Earth Policy in WW2

1914 battle

Emperor Julian's war against Persia

campaign during the Great Northern War (1708–1709)

Two rebellions by the FitzGerald dynasty in Ireland, late 16th century

1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition

1809–1811 Military defences during the Peninsular War

1779 campaign during American Revolutionary War

Fire started by Greek Army in landlocked town of Manisa during Greco-Turkish War in 1922

2009 Yemeni military offensive in the northern Saada Governorate

Fire during the Sino-Japanese War

German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, 1917

Italian military commander (1591–1636)

scorched earth campaign during the Indonesian National Revolution

French strategic offensive during the Algerian War

Sovnarkom decree of danger

Sacking of a Polish City during WW1

1226 siege of Avignon by Louis VIII of France

series of military operations after the French conquest of the Regency of Algiers

siege in 1852