Actually, let's be clear - an incident with smallpox-infected blankets given to indians in order to deliberately infect them IS true. However, it was the english that did it, not the United States army...
Gotta make sure that truth doesn't get screwed up because of Churchill's fraud.
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Thanks, Chad; I had read that in passing and obviusly didn't get all the details.
Uhmmmm..NOT necessarily true!..Louis Pasteur didn't make the connection between "germs" and disease - bacteria & their vectors and disease, until his investigative work between 1865 and 1877. It's hard to 1) see how English officers knew about bacterial or viral contamination, or 2) see where they found someone with infectious smallpox, alive, and were able to get the bacteria onto blankets, without contaminating themselves, and getting the blankets, still fresh with the disease to the Indians, and then....
Very quickly this TRUE story starts to look like a Ward Churchilesk fabrication.