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To: zonder who wrote (2013)	1/10/2003 8:31:54 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) of 15987

Zonder, You will notice, that it is British officers who talked about sending smallpox to indians. Not Americans. Smallpox hit American born whites very hard, that era as well. You should read the book: Pox Americana. It argues that the British tried to spread a smallpox epidemic among American Revolutionaries. The book documents that smallpox hit the Americans so hard, that Washington undertook inoculating his entire army, during its winter camp at Valley Forge - and that the American invasion of Canada, was in part crushed by the spread of smallpox among American troops. The book shows how this particular smallpox epidemic, spread throughout North America during and shortly after the Revolutionary War (and its toll, among European Americans as well as Native Americans). The book also documents how common firearms were among the American Indian population, by the Revolutionary War. You should realize that if you are a young Native American or Anglo American settler, 20 years old in the 18th century; if the last smallpox epidemic was 25 years ago, you both were pretty much in the same boat.

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