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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Thanks for the update, I was going on recollection. Nevertheless, the point is still valid, a correspondence between 2 military figures 300+ years into the time that disease had wiped out Indians is no real proof that the Army had a strategy to use small pox to not only wipe out the Indians, but actually wiped out any significant # of them, the majority of them had already succombed to the disease.
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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."[