North American smallpox epidemic
- North American smallpox epidemic
Between 1775 and 1782, a smallpox epidemic raged across much of North America, killing more than 130,000 people. It rampaged the town of Boston during the British occupation and the American siege of 1775. It was present during the American invasion of Quebec in 1775. Smallpox ravaged the populations of escaped slaves who fled to the British lines in the South during the American Revolutionary War. New Orleans experienced great bouts of it from 1778-1779. Tens of thousands of people died throughout Mexico from smallpox beginning in 1779.
Smallpox then swept through the Pueblos of New Mexico beginning in 1780. It showed up in the interior trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1782, and then it devastated the people of the Great Plains during the 1837-38 smallpox epidemic.Many people died
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