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I'm going to have a quick few one nitpicks for you, which you'll need anyway if you go for
A-class.
I was looking into the two references Stephen (1886), with a view to replacing these with direct links to DNB articles at Wikisource. The one to pages 340 and 341 is OK, because in the indicated vol.7 of the Google Books this is the start of the article for John Burgoyne. The other one is puzzling, because it is to p. 550 and the book has only about 450 pages. A check on the intended ref, please. Charles Matthews ( talk) 10:39, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Removing now. Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:05, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
That smallpox myth certainly gets mileage. Before I deleted it the text read "The war also had incidents of biological warfare used by the British. In late 1775 and early 1776, the British Army deliberately infected thousands of American civilians and black slaves - men, women, and children - with smallpox then sent them in order to spread disease behind Continental Army lines and the inhabitants of Continental-held towns in Massachusetts. The ensuing devastation of the Continental Army and the inhabitants." all false. In the event 500 people left Boston, of whom 3 (three) later came down with smallpox. They did not cause any losses to the American Army. Boston had suffered a major smallpox epidemic for the previous two years and it was kept well under control. 3 cases out of 500 people was average, not biological warfare. (a total of 40 people died from smallpox and 28 from inoculations). click here for actual facts: Ballard C. Campbell (2008). Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation's Most Catastrophic Events. Infobase Publishing. p. 1777. Rjensen ( talk) 01:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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Current status: Good article |
I'm going to have a quick few one nitpicks for you, which you'll need anyway if you go for
A-class.
I was looking into the two references Stephen (1886), with a view to replacing these with direct links to DNB articles at Wikisource. The one to pages 340 and 341 is OK, because in the indicated vol.7 of the Google Books this is the start of the article for John Burgoyne. The other one is puzzling, because it is to p. 550 and the book has only about 450 pages. A check on the intended ref, please. Charles Matthews ( talk) 10:39, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Removing now. Charles Matthews ( talk) 20:05, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
That smallpox myth certainly gets mileage. Before I deleted it the text read "The war also had incidents of biological warfare used by the British. In late 1775 and early 1776, the British Army deliberately infected thousands of American civilians and black slaves - men, women, and children - with smallpox then sent them in order to spread disease behind Continental Army lines and the inhabitants of Continental-held towns in Massachusetts. The ensuing devastation of the Continental Army and the inhabitants." all false. In the event 500 people left Boston, of whom 3 (three) later came down with smallpox. They did not cause any losses to the American Army. Boston had suffered a major smallpox epidemic for the previous two years and it was kept well under control. 3 cases out of 500 people was average, not biological warfare. (a total of 40 people died from smallpox and 28 from inoculations). click here for actual facts: Ballard C. Campbell (2008). Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation's Most Catastrophic Events. Infobase Publishing. p. 1777. Rjensen ( talk) 01:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)