2018年11月15日 · North American colonists’ warfare against Native Americans often was horrifyingly brutal. But one method they appear to have used—perhaps just once—shocks even more than all the bloody slaughter:...

2023年6月26日 · This is the true story about the alleged use of smallpox blankets — and the dark history surrounding it. How Colonists Used Smallpox Blankets Against Native Americans In 1763. The only recorded incident of smallpox blankets used as weapons happened in Pennsylvania in the late spring and early summer of 1763.

2023年11月15日 · Lingering questions surround deliberate smallpox outbreaks among Native Americans, leaving a legacy of trauma and distrust in Native communities to this day. This article seeks to answer these questions.

2017年8月15日 · The 1837–38 epidemic spawned the narrative that white settlers spread “smallpox in the blankets” to clear American Indians off the land. Is it myth or fact? Genocide or hokum?

The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic spanned 1836 through 1840, reaching its height after the spring of 1837, when an American Fur Company steamboat, the SS St. Peter, carried infected people and supplies up the Missouri River in the Midwestern United States. [1] .

2018年12月11日 · North American colonists’ warfare against Native Americans often was horrifyingly brutal. But one method they appear to have used shocks even more than all the bloody slaughter: The gifting of...

1763–64: Britain wages biological warfare with smallpox. The British give smallpox-contaminated blankets to Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware) communities—an action sanctioned by the British officers Sir Jeffery Amherst and his replacement, General Thomas Gage.

The most famous “smallpox blanket” incident in American history took place in the midst of Pontiac’s Rebellion in 1763. In May and June of that year, a loose confederation of tribes inspired by the Ottawa war leader Pontiac launched attacks on British-held posts throughout the Great Lakes and Midwest.

understand how the smallpox blanket came to express the message of the Nessus shirt in the New World, I analyze classical and other poison-garment legends to identify the common characteristics of such tales.

Churchill reports that in early 1837, the commander of Fort Clark ordered a boatload of blankets shipped from a military smallpox infirmary in St. Louis. When the shipment arrived at Fort Clark on June 20, U.S. Army officers requested a parlay with Mandan Indians who lived next to the fort.