No. You are wrong. 7.96 lists what is left unprotected after a war and allocates who must take responsibility for them. Hence includes women (because men fought the war).
Manu Smriti 7.97 (very next verse) says that the army gives everything to the ruler+
Ruler then distributes common assets in just way.
However after a king wins, the people in defeated territory become his praja (subject) and are protected.
Swami Dayanand writes here that women and children of dead warriors get their property and security from king.
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Manu Smriti has throughout specified that nothing must happen without woman's consent. 5.149 says only family of woman (with her consent) can decide on her behalf. 7.45-52 prohibit warriors from indulging in women. Chapter 9 describes women must be respected and never forced+
8th chapter of Manu Smriti describes punishments for those who exploit women (by force or even consent like in LJ cases)
8.352 says that they be severely and immediately punished
8.344-351 state that this applies even if accused is guru, child, scholar, friend or rich +
Manu Smriti 8.323 says if someone steals, he may be killed. And if he targets a woman, he may be killed.
Hence, interpreting 7.96 to assume women are war-booty is wrong in context of entire Manu Smriti and Vedas. That is why Shivaji, Rana Pratap never touched women of enemy+
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