The British give smallpox-contaminated blankets to Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware) communities—an action sanctioned by the British officers Sir Jeffery Amherst and his replacement, General Thomas Gage.
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Viking Warfare, Ships and MedicineAn Overview of SmallpoxEdward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccinationSmallpox“Out of our regard to them … we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.” —An eyewitness, quoted in Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–81, 2001
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Health- Theme
- Epidemics
- Region
- Northeast
