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uawchild

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60. Small Pox blankets

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 12:02 AM

Jul 2016

During Pontiac's uprising in 1763, the Indians besieged Fort Pitt. They burned nearby houses, forcing the inhabitants to take refuge in the well-protected fort. The British officer in charge, Captain Simeon Ecuyer, reported to Colonel Henry Bouquet in Philadelphia that he feared the crowded conditions would result in disease. Smallpox had already broken out. On June 24, 1763, William Trent, a local trader, recorded in his journal that two Indian chiefs had visited the fort, urging the British to abandon the fight, but the British refused. Instead, when the Indians were ready to leave, Trent wrote: "Out of our regard for them, we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect."

Just one example of American/English colonialists using small pox as a bio weapon. Smallpox was the number one killer of Native Americans. Despite your claims that the Americans did not understand the nature of the pathogens, well, facts prove you wrong. Sorry.

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Just STOP the war mongering -- Russia is a very weak nation [View all] uawchild Jul 2016 OP

Facts Facts Facts - hey you are killing all the Fear Fear Fear SoLeftIAmRight Jul 2016 #1

If Assad is attacked he will be defended with nukes Cayenne Jul 2016 #2

Link please -- I have to call you out on this one. uawchild Jul 2016 #3

Iskander tactical nukes Cayenne Jul 2016 #6

Ah so you could NOT post a link where Russia made it clear they would use nukes to defend Assad uawchild Jul 2016 #8

He did say they will defend Russians in Syria Cayenne Jul 2016 #10

Nice back pedaling. uawchild Jul 2016 #11

That's called a "pyrrhic victory." Igel Jul 2016 #13

The information you were provided still challenges the myth of Russia as "weak." Maru Kitteh Jul 2016 #15

Risking Nuclear War for Al Qaeda? AntiBank Jul 2016 #12

The entire "red menace" was pretty much a fraud CanonRay Jul 2016 #4

Current menace is certainly overblown uawchild Jul 2016 #5

.+1 840high Jul 2016 #9

There was this itsy-bitsy thing of nuclear weapons on intercontinental ballistic missiles. DetlefK Jul 2016 #37

Not true Lithos Jul 2016 #51

It's both things: Nevernose Jul 2016 #7

Yes. Thank you. Russia is both dangerous and weak, and we spend WAY too much Maru Kitteh Jul 2016 #16

Serious question, are we, the US, dangerous too? uawchild Jul 2016 #19

Soviet Communist death toll: 61,000,000 people. Mosby Jul 2016 #20

Your numbers are from a blogger pimping his ebook Death by Government with no attribution for Monk06 Jul 2016 #24

the author is a Prof Emeritas at U of Hawaii Mosby Jul 2016 #39

Well hardly a major author or expert in his field and his use of statistics lacks rigor and clarity Monk06 Jul 2016 #42

and you have presented absolutely nothing to prove he's wrong Mosby Jul 2016 #43

It's up to you to prove his conclusions can be trusted My criticism is legitimate his tables of Monk06 Jul 2016 #45

Relax, he moved the goal posts uawchild Jul 2016 #47

your goal post is meaningless Mosby Jul 2016 #54

You living in the year 1800 is meaningless uawchild Jul 2016 #59

This message was self-deleted by its author uawchild Jul 2016 #50

61 million deaths since WWII umm NO uawchild Jul 2016 #26

Russia by a mile Mosby Jul 2016 #40

Are you really claiming Russia killed 60 MILLION people since WWII? Boggle uawchild Jul 2016 #46

"Don't like my answer, then prove me wrong" easily done uawchild Jul 2016 #49

Afghanistan. Eko Jul 2016 #52

80,000 killed Eko Jul 2016 #53

1.3 million dead by US led war on terror uawchild Jul 2016 #57

That make about 2,700,000 deaths for the US uawchild Jul 2016 #58

"U.S. has killed 20-30 million people since WWII" uawchild Jul 2016 #64

opps replied to myself, reposted correctly n/t uawchild Jul 2016 #44

Indigenous Americans might disagree with you. uawchild Jul 2016 #48

your blaming Americans for the effects of pathogens that were not even understood at the time Mosby Jul 2016 #55

Small Pox blankets uawchild Jul 2016 #60

those were british not americans Mosby Jul 2016 #61

Please don't lie about small pox, you are so totally wrong uawchild Jul 2016 #62

"those were british not americans" Woah, nice try lol uawchild Jul 2016 #63

The high end of the population in North America is generally around 18 million mythology Jul 2016 #70

They understood smallpox was contagious and how to transmit it uawchild Jul 2016 #71

All concentration of power is dangerous. The absence of power presents it's own danger. Maru Kitteh Jul 2016 #56

Russia is building military relations and there are those in the West that want to put a "hit" PufPuf23 Jul 2016 #14

Russia annexed Crimea (nt) Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #17

Just for fun explain the difference uawchild Jul 2016 #18

In 1845 my answer to your question would indeed have been different (nt) Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #21

Hawaii was annexed by US in 1898 uawchild Jul 2016 #27

All countries have done bad things throughout history. We do not make a better world pampango Jul 2016 #28

The problem is demonization and overlooking our own actions. uawchild Jul 2016 #29

I don't mind 'demonizing' the US for Vietnam/Iraq AND Russia for Crimea. pampango Jul 2016 #32

Excellent reply uawchild Jul 2016 #34

Just by way of fact Stalin removed the Muslim Tatar majority in 1945, swift forced relocation at Bluenorthwest Jul 2016 #65

Just by the way of fact Roosevelt moved 120,000 ethnic Japanese Americans to internment camps uawchild Jul 2016 #66

if you don't include what our government did to our indigenous populations, or what the Brits pulled KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #68

Its interesting that Russia and Germany are treated differently... uawchild Jul 2016 #73

A very smart Frenchman, La Rochefoucauld, noted a few KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #78

Most of the American Southwest was stolen from Mexico after 1850. Continuing the KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #67

Well for one... Adrahil Jul 2016 #80

The warmongering will cease when Russia withdraws from Crimea, ends military support of the civil Little Tich Jul 2016 #22

russia and its military capabilities is a joke. but makes a convenient redherring to deflect KG Jul 2016 #23

Russia's military capacity is no joke It is leaner, more targeted, more asymmetrical and more agile Monk06 Jul 2016 #25

But war is so exciting and so profitable! JNelson6563 Jul 2016 #30

I do find people who assert Russia is going to conquer Europe amusing. bemildred Jul 2016 #31

U.S. accuses Russian warship of aggressive maneuvers near U.S. navy ship bemildred Jul 2016 #33

U.S. says Russian ship raised false signal in incident bemildred Jul 2016 #35

there's a sig file in there! uawchild Jul 2016 #38

Sorry. War mongering will continue until someone figures out a way people get richer on peace. nt merrily Jul 2016 #36

Thread winner! If Russia did not exist, it would be necessary to KingCharlemagne Jul 2016 #69

But Trump et al want us living with Cold War fear again. nt Ilsa Jul 2016 #41

Perhaps you should ask the people of Georgia, Ukraine and chechnya about how mythology Jul 2016 #72

And we should also ask the people of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan uawchild Jul 2016 #74

Lets talk about Chechnya uawchild Jul 2016 #75

Leave Russia ALONE! NobodyHere Jul 2016 #76

LOLOLOLOLO uawchild Jul 2016 #77

Ukrainians would disagree about Russia being a "weak nation". Odin2005 Jul 2016 #79

fascinating thread during which your cred has been destroyed uhnope Jul 2016 #81