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Originally Posted by Sly
True, it is a classic piece of history.
Smallpox was bad news. Now, one could make the argument that white man purposely gave natives smallpox, and that could be considered murder/slaughter/genocide. How to get those numbers? No clue. I suppose we could pull them out of our ass. I mean, we've already seen so much of that in this thread, let's throw in another chunk of dookie.
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actually an America carvery officer did in fact give smallpox infected blankets to the Indians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt
On June 29, 1763, a week after the siege began, Bouquet was preparing to lead an expedition to relieve Fort Pitt when he received a letter from Amherst making the following proposal: "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."
however germ warfare has always been very poplar since earliest times