Punitive expedition

A punitive expedition is a military campaign, which officially has the aim to punish the misconduct of the country, which it qualifies. This term is mostly used in proceedings against colonies or in the annexed provinces, as were about Caesars Galli campaigns such punitive expeditions.

Examples

An example of a misguided punitive expedition is by George Armstrong Custer led to the failure of companies in the U.S. 7th Cavalry against the Sioux and Cheyenne that culminated in the defeat at Little Big Horn.

Other examples of a punitive expedition are, inter alia, the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900 with the legendary Hunnenrede of Kaiser Wilhelm II ( quote: " No quarter will be given no prisoners! " ), The direct or indirect persecution and murder large parts of the ethnic groups of the Herero and Nama in the former colony of German South West (now Namibia) from 1904 to 1908 in the uprising of the Herero and Nama and the suppression of the 1905 Revolution in the Russian Empire: troops and naval battalions were in the Baltic provinces of Estonia, Livonia and Courland sent to ensure a quick punishment of the leaders. In Siberia, the tsarist generals Paul von Rennenkampff and Alexander Nikolayevich Möller- Sakomelski pursued the insurgents. In a few months as more than 1,000 people were killed, many were arrested and punished or exiled to Siberia, and burned about 300 farms.