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Disease, Wilderness Warfare, and Imperial Relations: The Battle for Quebec, 1759—1760

During the siege at Quebec, 1759—60, which followed the battle on the Plains of Abraham, high rates of disease contributed to the British defeat by French forces in April 1760. While historians have not previously discussed military medical preventative measures, a detailed examination of the siege demonstrates sophisticated attempts to adapt to a foreign environment and its disease, as well as how disease contributed to the development of American provincial and British antagonism and perceptions of difference.

War in History, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1-24 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0968344508097615


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