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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
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."[
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Yes, ADG already pointed out that obscure communication. Again, that doesn't reflect widespread strategy to use smallpox as a weapon and also doesn't matter, there had already been ~300 years of smallpox wiping out Indians prior to that correspondence.