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Idea for a cartoon (Original Post) lame54 Oct 2025 OP
Something similar ... Straw Man Oct 2025 #1
fighting biological warfare since 1492 lapfog_1 Oct 2025 #2

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2. fighting biological warfare since 1492
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 06:38 PM
Oct 2025

there is documented evidence that British officers at Fort Pitt intentionally gave smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763. A military commander, Colonel Henry Bouquet, ordered the distribution of blankets and a handkerchief from the smallpox hospital, and his superior, Lord Jeffrey Amherst, approved of using smallpox as a weapon.

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