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Monk said:
Horrid affliction, thank god it no longer happens,
however no doubt, some countries still hold super strength smallpox:-
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North American colonists’ warfare
against Native Americans
often was horrifyingly brutal.

But one method they appear to have used
perhaps just once
shocks even more than all the bloody slaughter:
The gifting of blankets and linens contaminated with smallpox.

The virus causes a disease
that can inflict disfiguring scars, blindness and death.
The tactic constitutes a crude form of biological warfare

Colonial weaponizing of smallpox against Native Americans
was first reported by 19th-century historian Francis Parkman
who came across correspondence
in which Sir Jeffery Amherst
commander in chief of the British forces in North America
in the early 1760s, had discussed its use with Col. Henry Bouquet
a subordinate on the western frontier
during the French and Indian War.

In the late spring of 1763
Delaware, Shawnee and Mingo warriors
inspired by Ottawa war leader Pontiac,
laid siege to Fort Pitt,
an outpost at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
in present-day downtown Pittsburgh.
Sir Jeffrey Amherst wrote a letter
regarding the use of smallpox blankets as a weapon

against Native Americans.

The fort’s commander, Capt. Simeon Ecuyer
reported in a June 16 message to his superior
Philadelphia-based Col. Henry Bouquet
that the situation was dire, with local traders and colonists
taking refuge inside the fort’s walls.
Ecuyer wasn’t just afraid of his Native American adversaries.
The fort’s hospital had patients with smallpox
and Ecuyer feared
the disease might overwhelm the population inside the fort’s cramped confines.
Bouquet, in turn, passed along the news
about the smallpox inside Fort Pitt
to his own superior, Amherst, in a June 23 letter.

In Amherst's July 7 response
he cold-bloodedly saw an opportunity in the disease outbreak.

“....Could it not be contrived
to Send the Small Pox among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians?
We must, on this occasion,
Use Every Stratagem in our power to Reduce them.....”

On July 13, Bouquet, who at that point was traveling across Pennsylvania
with British reinforcements for Fort Pitt, responded to Amherst
promising that he would try to spread the disease to the Native Americans
via contaminated blankets
“....taking care however not to get the disease myself....”

That tactic seemed to please Amherst
who wrote back in approval on July 16
urging him to spread smallpox
“....as well as
try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execreble [sic] Race....”

What Amherst and Bouquet didn’t know
was that somebody at Fort Pitt had already
thought of trying to infect the Native Americans with smallpox
and had attempted to do it.
William Trent, a trader, land speculator and militia captain
wrote in his diary that on June 23
two Delaware emissaries had visited the fort
and asked to hold talks the next day.
At that meeting, after the Native American diplomats
had tried unsuccessfully to persuade the British to abandon Fort Pitt
they asked for provisions and liquor for their return.
The British complied, and also gave them gifts
two blankets and a handkerchief which had come from the smallpox ward.

“...I hope it will have the desired effect....” Trent wrote.

Though it’s not completely clear
who perpetrated the biological warfare attack
documentary evidence points to Trent as the probable culprit.
As detailed in Fenn’s 2000 article
the trader later submitted an invoice to the British military for purchasing two blankets and a silk handkerchief

“...to Replace in kind those which were taken from people in the Hospital to Convey the Smallpox to the Indians....”

Ecuyer certified that the items were used to spread smallpox
which indicates that he may have been in on the attempt as well.
British Gen. Thomas Gage, who succeeded Amherst that year
as colonial commander, eventually approved the payment :smile:
Monk said:
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JUPITERASC

JUPITERASC

Well-known member
Monk said:
Horrid affliction, thank god it no longer happens,
however no doubt,
some countries still hold super strength smallpox:-
Click to expand...


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Dr. Rashid A. Buttar received his undergraduate degree
from Washington University in St. Louis
with a double major in Biology and Theology at age 21
and then attended medical school
at the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences,
College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa,
graduating with his medical degree at age 25.

He trained in General Surgery and Emergency Medicine
and served as Brigade Surgeon for 2nd Infantry Division,
Republic of South Korea,
and later as Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine
at Moncrief Army Community Hospital at Ft. Jackson in Columbia,
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and
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