Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth A. Fenn
Journal of American History, vol. 86, no. 4, March 2000, pp. 1552-1580
Description
Discusses the controversy over whether the British general deliberately distributed blankets infected with smallpox as a method of decimating the population of Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo Indians surrounding Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania during Pontiac's War.