Oh, Those Nasty Brits...
I'm reading a book about the continent-wide small pox epidemic that took place between 1775 and 1782. Apparently the Brits did their level best to spread the disease among the colonials who were rebelling. The book is entitled Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn.
Here's a quote from page 132 (emphasis mine):
No matter though. All's been forgiven. Water. Bridge. And all that.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Here's a quote from page 132 (emphasis mine):
"Three years before Yorktown, a book written by a British officer in New York had explicitly suggested that His Majesty's forces should propagate smallpox among the Americans. "Dip arrows in matter of smallpox," wrote Robert Donkin, "and twang them at the American rebels, in order to inoculate them; This would sooner disband those stubborn, ignorant, enthusiastic savages, than any other compulsive measures...."LOL!!
No matter though. All's been forgiven. Water. Bridge. And all that.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Labels: Brits, history, revolution, The Once Great Britain, Yanks
posted by Louise at 6:28 pm
1 Comments:
There you go! Another British War Crime! And their paying Indian tribes to attack civilian settlements on the western edges of the 13 states, from Vermont to N. Carolina, committing atrocities against civilians, men women AND children. After this, there was zero chance of any reconciliation between the American people and the British Crown.
And the pro-British minority of Americans spying for the British, fighting for the British, effectively giving tacit approval for these British-arranged Indian atrocities ... all this explains the huge animosity from the majority of Americans towards the minority of pro-British "loyalists".
And why, for one example, the Mohawks all over NY state that committed atrocities against many western settlements were expelled from their previously large land holdings in New York, to their remaining small holding in upper NY adjacent to the Quebec border. Subsequent to the great American victory at Saratoga in 1777, Washington sent in Continental Army regulars to assist the NY Militia in making that happen. If you're going to systematically commit terrible war atrocities, you'd better win the war, or else you're going to pay for it.
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