User:Calthinus/KingOnCircassianResistance

Notes for integrating to main wiki pages:

Ermolov: p45-49; strategy of building forts (p47) and disproportionate retaliation p48-49, slaughtering whole families and etc...

p74- disproportionate retaliation continued. "Lifelines of guerilla combatants had to be cut"- crops burned/ploughed-under, lifestock killed, Russians take "spoils of war"... but this just drives the population into fiercer resistance.

p74-75- "third Russian strategy" is to change hte field of battle. Circassians benefitted from their knowledge of terrain and superior ability to move on it, so Russians cut/burn this, build roads, and even try to change population makeup-- "...Into htese spaces Russian settlers could be moved or "pacified" highlanders resettled..." [i.e. changing population- precursor to deportation?]

p75- slaughtering native villages (example in Chechnya) p81 (also 88)- Circassians have little regard for Imam Shamil and disregard his attempts to unify resistance p92- Circassians continue fighting long after Shamil falls, Russia frustrated (never saw that the two flanks were separate).

Other notes: Georgian rebellions- see earlier section on Imereti and Kartl-Kakheti resistance p30, also p65 (Abkhazia and Imereti) and maybe see Anchabadze

Dagestani Murid rebellions- p68-69- Dagestani regions were largely submissive to Russia at first because the leaders, incorporated into the Russian nobility, viewed Russia as a benefactor for their power.... these uprisings also involve Muslim vs. Muslim, essentially civil war between old secular authorities and upstart religious rebels in addition to war against Russians (p67), Muridism does not unite with the NorthWest Caucasus resistance (p68), 1829 Ghazi Muhammad arises (p70), 1832 General Rozen attacks him (p71), Hamzat Bek, member of Avar nobility succeeds Ghazi Muhammad (p71), and murders the whole court of Pakhu Bike, Queen of Avaristan (p72), losing much of the support of Dagestani notables. p81 (also 88)- Circassians have little regard for Imam Shamil and disregard his attempts to unify resistance p89- Shamil alienates by raiding native lowland settlements.

p55-56 - Poles in the Caucasus