How Smallpox Blankets KILLED 100,000 Native Americans | Pontiac's War
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In June 1763, at Fort Pitt during Pontiac's War, British military officers made a calculated decision that would become one of history's most documented cases of biological warfare. They deliberately distributed blankets and handkerchiefs from their smallpox hospital to Native American leaders during peace negotiations—a decision explicitly discussed and approved in preserved military correspondence.
Sources:
Fenn, Elizabeth A. "Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst" - Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 4 (March 2000)
D'Errico, Peter. "Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets: Lord Jeffrey Amherst's Letters Discussing Germ Warfare Against American Indians" - University of Massachusetts, Department of Legal Studies
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