Fenn, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne)

Summary: Publisher description: A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn reveals how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.912 FEN