Place
Fort Pitt
British fort at the forks of the Ohio River, besieged in the summer of 1763.
Connections 1
involved in
- Smallpox-hospital blankets given at Fort Pitt, 1763 where smallpox broke out in June 1763 Scholarship & press 1
Proof 1 source
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Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst, The Journal of American History, 2000.
Scholarship & press
Ecuyer reported the outbreak at Fort Pitt on June 16, and the attempt to communicate the disease took place eight days later.
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