[hinckley buzzard]

Pretty good, but one correction, about the smallpox blankets. They were real, used in New England-- by the British. Lord Jeffry Amherst, a British colonial governor and Indian fighter, who was fed up with Indian raiding parties and attacks on outlying farms, decided to take radical action. He was rewarded by having a college named after him.

[Borges]

Well he got a town named after him. The college was named after the town.

[Wingy]

Gee, it seems that Louis Pasteur who was born some twenty five years after your Lord Amherst died, stole all that knowledge about germs and such that Lord Amherst had at his fingertips. I don’t know how the smallpox blankets deal could be true if it took another fifty or sixty years before anyone even thought about germ theory.

[DuncanWaring]

You sure about the “smallpox blankets”?

Were they handled exclusively by those who had had smallpox and survived?

[ansel12]

Pretty good, but one correction, about the smallpox blankets. They were real, used in New England-- by the British. Lord Jeffry Amherst, a British colonial governor and Indian fighter, who was fed up with Indian raiding parties and attacks on outlying farms, decided to take radical action. He was rewarded by having a college named after him.

First, that was before America existed, and second, prove it to historians, even that single claim about a single individual is not proven.