13-02-2011, 01:29 AM
Says the august and virtually fault-free (according to some) Wikipedia:
"Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB (sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery) (29 January 1717 3 August 1797) served as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.... The hostility between the British and Native Americans after the French and Indian War led to one of the first documented attempts at biological warfare in North American history.[9] In response to the 1763 uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion, Colonel Henry Bouquet wrote to Amherst, his commanding officer, with the suggestion that the British distribute smallpox-infected blankets to Indians. Amherst approved the plan and expressed his willingness to adopt any "other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race."[10] However, with no records of it having happened, it remains in the category of folklore...."
But see http://academic.udayton.edu/health/sylla...ntro02.htm
"Bouquet was born into a moderately wealthy family in Rolle, Switzerland. The son of a Swiss roadhouse owner and his well-to-do wife, he entered military service at the age of 17. Like many military officers of his day, Bouquet traveled between countries serving as a professional soldier. He began his military career in the army of the Dutch Republic and later was in the service of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1748, he was again in Dutch service as lieutenant colonel of the Swiss guards....."
No confirmation yet that Bouquet was re-incarnated to be an employee of Xe.
The idea of catapulting bodies of plague-ridden corpses over city walls certainly lends a new inverse twist on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs that old Monty Python bit.
Table One [ http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v4/n...49_t1.html ] of Friedrich Frischknecht's "The history of biological warfare" notes that Emperor Barbarossa poisoned the wells in 1155 in the Italian town of Tortona by dumping dead bodies in them but also raises doubt about the direct causal links between both and other actions and the normal outbreak of illness from other sources.
What is interesting to me is the fact that the early development of public health epidemiology owes its initial burst to John Snow's research that centered in on the Broad Street pump in the 1854 outbreak of cholera. Parallels are drawn to a recent similar outbreak in Haiti. Similar concepts were built into an aborted civilian emergency management virtual tabletop exercise in which questions inserted into a communications sub-set forced the emergence of information enabling resolution of the communal threat. Sometimes I think (or hope) that is what we are doing holistically here at Deep Politics Forum.
"Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB (sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery) (29 January 1717 3 August 1797) served as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.... The hostility between the British and Native Americans after the French and Indian War led to one of the first documented attempts at biological warfare in North American history.[9] In response to the 1763 uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion, Colonel Henry Bouquet wrote to Amherst, his commanding officer, with the suggestion that the British distribute smallpox-infected blankets to Indians. Amherst approved the plan and expressed his willingness to adopt any "other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race."[10] However, with no records of it having happened, it remains in the category of folklore...."
But see http://academic.udayton.edu/health/sylla...ntro02.htm
"Bouquet was born into a moderately wealthy family in Rolle, Switzerland. The son of a Swiss roadhouse owner and his well-to-do wife, he entered military service at the age of 17. Like many military officers of his day, Bouquet traveled between countries serving as a professional soldier. He began his military career in the army of the Dutch Republic and later was in the service of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1748, he was again in Dutch service as lieutenant colonel of the Swiss guards....."
No confirmation yet that Bouquet was re-incarnated to be an employee of Xe.
The idea of catapulting bodies of plague-ridden corpses over city walls certainly lends a new inverse twist on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs that old Monty Python bit.
Table One [ http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v4/n...49_t1.html ] of Friedrich Frischknecht's "The history of biological warfare" notes that Emperor Barbarossa poisoned the wells in 1155 in the Italian town of Tortona by dumping dead bodies in them but also raises doubt about the direct causal links between both and other actions and the normal outbreak of illness from other sources.
What is interesting to me is the fact that the early development of public health epidemiology owes its initial burst to John Snow's research that centered in on the Broad Street pump in the 1854 outbreak of cholera. Parallels are drawn to a recent similar outbreak in Haiti. Similar concepts were built into an aborted civilian emergency management virtual tabletop exercise in which questions inserted into a communications sub-set forced the emergence of information enabling resolution of the communal threat. Sometimes I think (or hope) that is what we are doing holistically here at Deep Politics Forum.
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