Person
Henry Bouquet
British colonel who led reinforcements to Fort Pitt in 1763.
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- British government colonel in the British army Scholarship & press 1
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- Amherst and Bouquet on smallpox, July 1763 replied on 13 July that he would try to infect the Indians by blankets "that may fall in their hands" Scholarship & press 2
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Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans as Biological Warfare?, HISTORY, 15 Nov 2018.
Scholarship & press
Col. Henry Bouquet, a subordinate on the western frontier during the French and Indian War
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Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst, The Journal of American History, 2000.
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try to inocculate the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself.
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