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AMERICA - WAR OF INDEPENDENCE DONKIN (MAJOR R.) Military Collections and Remarks, FIRST EDITION, New York, H. Gaine, 1777
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AMERICA - WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Footnotes
As with most other surviving copies of this scarce work by a survivor of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, ours has had the controversial footnote on p.190 excised by the printer. In the note Major Donkin foresaw the use of biological warfare, albeit with the intention of causing disarray rather than infection: "Dip arrows in matter of small-pox and twang them at the American rebels in order to inoculate them; this would sooner disband these stubborn, ignorant, enthusiastic savages than any other compulsive measures. Such is their dread and fear of that disorder".
The list of subscribers includes soldiers from the Royal Fencible Americans, the Queen's American Rangers and the Prince of Wales's American Volunteers.
Provenance: Thomas Hopkins, Newland, Gloucestershire, bookplate. See illustration overleaf.





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