Invisible Armies: The Impact of Disease on American History

ISBN-10: 067252659X
ISBN-13: 9780672526596
Series: Invisible Armies
Pages: 239
Language: English
Published: 1980
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Author: Howard N. Simpson

Description

Explores the role disease has played in American history. More Indians were killed by smallpox than by guns. Smallpox and typhus among the French helped the British win the French-Indian War, and their soldiers in turn were significantly weakened by a malaria epidemic during the War of 1812. During westward expansion, pioneers spent much of their time burying one another, beset by malaria, typhus, diphtheria, pneumonia, yellow fever, smallpox, and cholera.