Scorched earth
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A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans,
The Union army engaging in a scorched-earth policy as part of Sherman's March to the Sea
Corfe Castle was slighted during the English Civil War so that its defences could not be reused.
The forces of Vlad the Impaler were associated with torches, particularly outside Târgoviște.
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow
Sherman's March to the Sea
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Sherman's March to the Sea, officially known as the Savannah campaign, or simply Sherman's March, was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until Dec
Scorched earth
…of secession and rebellion. This policy I believe exercised a material influence in hastening the end. General Sherman used that policy during his March to the Sea. Another event, in response to William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, and the many civilian casualties, including the killing of 150 men, Brigadier…
William T. Sherman and several Generals who took part in the march. Standing, left to right: Oliver O. Howard, William B. Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis, Joseph A. Mower. Seated, left to right: John A. Logan, William T. Sherman, Henry W. Slocum.
Sherman's advance: Tennessee, Georgia, and Carolinas (1863–65)
Sherman's men destroying a railroad in Atlanta