Download Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 Writen By Elizabeth A. Fenn

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

By : Elizabeth A. Fenn

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The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America.By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Qu?bec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia,

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Author : Elizabeth A. Fenn

Pages : 384 pages

Publisher : Hill and Wang

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ISBN-10 : 080907821X

ISBN-13 : 9780809078219

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