Comment Re: You miss my point (Score 1) 103
Which part of restorative justice do you not understand?
Step 1. Hindu temple existed for ages
Step 2. Barbaric Islamic invader built a mosque over it.
Step 3. Restorative justice, the Hinfu temple for restored
Let me dumb it down for you:
Corollary:
White Americans enslaved Africans.
Africal Americans like MLK Jr fought for their rights via the Civil Rights Movement.
Restorative Justice FTW
OR another example of deep injustice in our great American homeland . Why dont you introdpect first, find your own faults before fingerpointing at other cultures from your priveleged +ignorant armchair?
https://www.perplexity.ai/sear...
deep research british invaders killing native americans with small pox blankets
deep research british invaders killing native americans with small pox blankets
The British use of smallpox-infected blankets as a form of biological warfare against Native Americans is a historically documented but rare and controversial event. The most well-known and only clearly documented case occurred in 1763 during the Siege of Fort Pitt (present-day Pittsburgh). British officers, including Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet, discussed and attempted to deliberately infect Native American tribes such as the Shawnee and Delaware (Lenape) by giving them blankets and a handkerchief contaminated with smallpox from the fortâ(TM)s hospital. This was intended to spread the disease among the besieging tribes to weaken them and relieve the fort[3][5][7][9][12].
William Trent, a trader at Fort Pitt, recorded in his journal that after failed negotiations, the British gave two blankets and a handkerchief from the smallpox hospital to Native emissaries, hoping it would have the desired effect of spreading smallpox[3][5][7][9]. Amherst explicitly encouraged using "every stratagem" to reduce the Native population, including infected blankets[7][12].
However, historians emphasize that this incident was exceptional rather than widespread. The broader devastation of Native American populations by smallpox was largely due to the conditions colonialism createdâ"war, displacement, and disruption of native societiesâ"which made indigenous peoples more vulnerable to epidemics[1][9]. There is no strong evidence that the British or other European colonizers systematically used smallpox blankets beyond this isolated 1763 event.
Some later claims, such as allegations of U.S. Army use of smallpox blankets in the 1830s, have been debunked or lack solid evidence[12]. The 1763 Fort Pitt incident remains the primary historical example of deliberate biological warfare with smallpox against Native Americans.
In summary:
- The British did attempt to use smallpox-infected blankets as a weapon once, in 1763 at Fort Pitt, as part of their conflict with Native tribes[3][5][7].
- This act was sanctioned by high-ranking officers like Amherst and Bouquet.
- The wider smallpox epidemics among Native Americans were mostly due to colonial disruption and disease spread, not systematic deliberate infection[1][9].
- The 1763 incident is considered the birth of modern biological warfare but was not a common tactic[5].
- Later claims of similar use are either unproven or false[12].
This event remains a dark chapter illustrating the brutal measures taken by colonial powers against indigenous peoples during their invasions and wars in North America.
Citations:
[1] Book details misconceptions about smallpox's role in Native
[2] Smallpox: 1789 Biological warfare against First Nations https://nationalunitygovernmen...
[3] 1763â"64: Britain wages biological warfare with smallpox https://www.nlm.nih.gov/native...
[4] Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms https://www.thecollector.com/s...
[5] Episode 28: Smallpox Blankets - Bedside Rounds http://bedside-rounds.org/epis...
[6] What Killed the Native Populations? - Dr Sam Bailey - Substack https://drsambailey.substack.c...
[7] Investigating the Smallpox Blanket Controversy https://asm.org/articles/2023/...
[8] Colonial Germ Warfare https://research.colonialwilli...
[9] Colonial warfare: Were smallpox-infected blankets given to Native Americans? https://geneticliteracyproject...
[10] Elizabeth Fenn: Pox Americana (excerpts, with renumbered footnotes) https://www.umass.edu/legal/de...
[11] âï British Colonial Smallpox Attack: A Dark Chapter in Native History https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
[12] Inside The Troubling History Of How Smallpox Blankets Were Intentionally Given To Indigenous Americans https://allthatsinteresting.co...
[13] Smallpox Blankets Given to Indigenous Peoples (1763) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
