▲ 795 ▼ "They're the same picture" (lemmy.ml) submitted 1 year ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml 130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Forester@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] edel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago Germ theory was unknown then and those Spaniards lacked understanding of contagion, well I'm lying, the people then knew about contagion with blood and corpses but not through items like air or blankets. The disease spread, while catastrophic it was fully unintentional. The only accounts like the famed Bartolomé de las Casas described the diseases as "divine punishment" or "mysterious plague", never as a warfare tool. However with the British, again more than 2 centuries later, there was knowledge and intent as per Jeffrey Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet discussing it "Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among the disaffected tribes?" "I will try to inoculate them with some blankets…" during the Siege of Fort Pitt (1763). permalink fedilink source parent [–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago So Spanish are just as bad as the English then. That doesn't help your case. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] edel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago Germ theory was unknown then and those Spaniards lacked understanding of contagion, well I'm lying, the people then knew about contagion with blood and corpses but not through items like air or blankets. The disease spread, while catastrophic it was fully unintentional. The only accounts like the famed Bartolomé de las Casas described the diseases as "divine punishment" or "mysterious plague", never as a warfare tool. However with the British, again more than 2 centuries later, there was knowledge and intent as per Jeffrey Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet discussing it "Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among the disaffected tribes?" "I will try to inoculate them with some blankets…" during the Siege of Fort Pitt (1763). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago So Spanish are just as bad as the English then. That doesn't help your case. permalink fedilink source parent