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The secret was from the British so they wouldn’t attack while the troops recovered from the lighter illness of cowpox
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The secret was from the British so they wouldn’t attack while the troops recovered from the lighter illness of cowpox
“…George Washington ordered a bold move on February 6, 1777, to have the entire Continental Army …which was carried out after that covertly, so the British were unaware of what Washington was doing” www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...
Washington Inoculates an Army
No other word conjured up more fear among 18th century Americans than the word “smallpox.” The communicable and dreaded disease was a scourge and for...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“…George Washington ordered a bold move on February 6, 1777, to have the entire Continental Army …which was carried out after that covertly, so the British were unaware of what Washington was doing” www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...
George Washington secretly vaccinated the Valley forge troops with cow pox
September 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
George Washington secretly vaccinated the Valley forge troops with cow pox