In North America, White Settlers attempted to kill First Nations people with blankets given as gifts that were infected with smallpox
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“During a parley in midst of the siege on 24 June 1763, Captain Simeon Ecuyer gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets and a handkerchief enclosed in small metal boxes that had been exposed to smallpox, in an attempt to spread the disease to the Natives in order to end the siege”
In North America, White Settlers attempted to kill First Nations people with blankets given as gifts that were infected with smallpox
edit: “During a parley in midst of the siege on 24 June 1763, Captain Simeon Ecuyer gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets and a handkerchief enclosed in small metal boxes that had been exposed to smallpox, in an attempt to spread the disease to the Natives in order to end the siege”
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