There is, in fact, correspondence between people in those times discussing such events. I'm not pushing anything. I'm just telling you what I have read. I suppose if you could come up with records from that time which prove otherwise, I could be swayed.
Right now, it is your indignation verses historical accounts.
This is old territory that gets tiresome but the left persists, which is why you are posting it on this thread debunking the left’s claims about Syphilis.
65 posted on 01/08/2025 5:37:01 PM PST by ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))