Editing Scorched earth (section)

==18th century==
===Great Northern War===
During the [[Great Northern War]], Russian Emperor [[Peter the Great]]'s forces used scorched-earth tactics to hold back Swedish King [[Charles XII]]'s campaign towards [[Moscow]] in 1707–1708.

===Sullivan–Clinton genocide===
In 1779 Congress decided to defeat the four British allied nations of the [[Iroquois]] decisively during the [[American Revolutionary War]] with the [[Sullivan Expedition]]. General John Sullivan used a scorched earth campaign by destroying more than 40 Iroquois villages and their stores of winter crops resulting in many deaths by starvation and cold in the following winter.{{sfn|Hardenbergh|McKendry|Griffis|2010}}

===Haitian Revolution against Napoleon===
In a letter to [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]], [[Toussaint Louverture]] outlined his plans for defeating the French in the [[Haitian Revolution]] starting in 1791 using scorched-earth: "Do not forget, while waiting for the rainy reason which will rid us of our foes, that we have no other resource than destruction and fire. Bear in mind that the soil bathed with our sweat must not furnish our enemies with the smallest sustenance. Tear up the roads with shot; throw corpses and horses into all the foundations, burn and annihilate everything in order that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of the hell which they deserve".{{sfn|Grey|2022}}