Person
Jeffery Amherst
British commander in chief in North America in 1763.
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- British government commander in chief of British forces in North America, early 1760s Scholarship & press 1
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- Amherst and Bouquet on smallpox, July 1763 asked whether smallpox could be sent among the "Disaffected Tribes", in a memorandum Fenn dates to 7 July 1763 Scholarship & press 2
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Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans as Biological Warfare?, HISTORY, 15 Nov 2018.
Scholarship & press
Sir Jeffery Amherst, commander in chief of the British forces in North America in the early 1760s
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Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst, The Journal of American History, 2000.
Scholarship & press
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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