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Military tactic

Caravan raids are a surprise attack or incursion by a hostile force on a caravan, a group of merchants, pilgrims, or travelers journeying together.

Examples

Caravan raids have been described as a characteristic risk for travelers in the 19th-century Sahara desert and Kazakh Steppe. Caravan raids were also a risk for Hajj caravans through various historical periods, from the Crusades to the Ottoman period.

See also

References

  1. Boahen, A. Adu (1962). "The Caravan Trade in the Nineteenth Century". The Journal of African History. 3 (2): 349–359. ISSN 0021-8537.
  2. Eden, Jeff (June 2023). "Anatomy of a Caravan Raid: Peril and Possibility in the Kazakh Steppe, 1800–1860". Journal of Central Asian History. 2 (1): 1–32 – via ResearchGate.
  3. Mallett, Alex (2008). "A Trip down the Red Sea with Reynald of Châtillon". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 18 (2): 141–153. ISSN 1356-1863.
  4. Khan, Mu'Īnuddīn Aḥmad; Jones, Harford (1968). "A Diplomat's Report on Wahhabism of Arabia". Islamic Studies. 7 (1): 33–46. ISSN 0578-8072.
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