US Civil War - The North had a campaign at the end of the war where they swept through a lot of the south strongholds and broke their will at the end.
There aren't a lot of examples because in warfare, citizens were considered largely off limits - and guerilla wars are a relatively new phenomenon.
I mean no one has really tried to launch a full fledged terror campaign on a group of people, except in limited and somewhat different circumstances. I mean the great purges in the USSR in effect did accomplish their goal and was probably one of the most brutal and bloody attacks on population base and that quickly brought the populus into line. I mean it had many other lasting effects, but it definately limited the dissedents in Russia.
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