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Between 1775 and 1782, a smallpox
Smallpox

Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning spotted, or varus, meaning "pimple"....
 epidemic
Epidemic

In epidemiology, an infection that is epidemic appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience ....
 raged across much of North America, killing more than 130,000 people. It rampaged the town of Boston during the British occupation and the American siege of 1775
Siege of Boston

}|-||}The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen?who later became part of the Continental Army?surrounded the town of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army garrisoned within....
. It was present during the American invasion of Quebec
Invasion of Canada (1775)

The Invasion of Canada in 1775 was the first major military initiative by colonial separatist forces during the American Revolutionary War. One expedition left Fort Ticonderoga under Richard Montgomery, besieged and captured Fort Saint-Jean , and very nearly captured British General Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester when taking Montreal....
 in 1775. Smallpox ravaged the populations of escaped slaves who fled to the British lines in the South during the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
. New Orleans experienced great bouts of it from 1778 to 1779.






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Between 1775 and 1782, a smallpox
Smallpox

Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning spotted, or varus, meaning "pimple"....
 epidemic
Epidemic

In epidemiology, an infection that is epidemic appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience ....
 raged across much of North America, killing more than 130,000 people. It rampaged the town of Boston during the British occupation and the American siege of 1775
Siege of Boston

}|-||}The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen?who later became part of the Continental Army?surrounded the town of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army garrisoned within....
. It was present during the American invasion of Quebec
Invasion of Canada (1775)

The Invasion of Canada in 1775 was the first major military initiative by colonial separatist forces during the American Revolutionary War. One expedition left Fort Ticonderoga under Richard Montgomery, besieged and captured Fort Saint-Jean , and very nearly captured British General Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester when taking Montreal....
 in 1775. Smallpox ravaged the populations of escaped slaves who fled to the British lines in the South during the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
. New Orleans experienced great bouts of it from 1778 to 1779. Tens of thousands of people died throughout Mexico from smallpox beginning in 1779.

Smallpox then swept through the Pueblos of New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
 beginning in 1780. It showed up in the interior trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the mo...
 in 1782, and then it devastated the people of the Great Plains
Plains Indians

The Plains Indians are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains....
 during the 1837-38 smallpox epidemic
1837-38 smallpox epidemic

The smallpox epidemic that ravaged the people of the Great Plains in 1837 and 1838 was believed to have begun in spring of 1837 when a deckhand became ill aboard an American Fur Company steamboat named S.S....
. Many people died