The Americans and British before them.................used blankets laced with small pox................a form of biological warfare..................hypocrisy.............

Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans as Biological ...

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Nov 15, 2018 - There’s evidence that British colonists in 18th-century America gave Native Americans smallpox-infected blankets at least once—but did it work? ... Ecuyer wasn’t just afraid of his Native American adversaries. ... “Could it not be contrived to Send the Small Pox among those ...

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British Captain Simeon Ecuyer, portrayed by Ken Treese, second from right, offered blankets infected with smallpox to the Indians besieging Fort Pitt. From left ...

Native American disease and epidemics - Wikipedia

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The most destructive disease brought by Europeans was smallpox. The first well-documented smallpox epidemic happened in 1518. The Lakota Indians called the disease the running face sickness. Smallpox was lethal to many Native Americans, bringing sweeping epidemics and affecting the same tribes repeatedly.

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