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North American smallpox epidemic
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Between 1775 and 1782, a smallpox epidemic raged across much of North America, killing more than 130,000 people. Among the places it showed itself:
- The town of Boston during the British occupation and the American siege of 1775.
- The American invasion of Quebec, 1775.
- Smallpox ravaged the populations of escaped slaves who fled to the British lines in the South during the American Revolutionary War.
- New Orleans, 1778–1779
- Tens of thousands of people died throughout Mexico beginning in 1779.
- It swept through the Pueblos of New Mexico beginning in 1780.
- It probably travelled among the people of the Great Plains.
- It showed up in the interior trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1782
- Elizabeth A. Fenn: Pox Americana: the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, Hill and Wang, New York, 2001
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