Talk:Boston campaign: Difference between revisions

::the sources cited are not reliable secondary sources. Geoffrey Zubay is a biochemist with no experience with the historiography; he does not cite ANY primary or secondary historical sources. (see his resume at [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty/zubay/GLZubay-CV.pdf resume online] that shows 160+ articles, with zero on history. Given the huge scholarly literature on 1776, that does not pass muster when wikipedia demands "reliable secondary sources." Furthermore the text added to this article does not even follow its poor sources--it adds all sorts of exaggerations (three people with smallpox left Boston; the supposed text says "thousands"; the refugees were all kept in isolation far from the American troops and therethat worked, As stated in Peters, ''Smallpox in the New World'' (2005) Page 42 "His[Washington's] measures seem to have worked, for smallpox did not break out among the American forces near Boston." The rumors were rife: Washington in Dec 1775 warned a a FUTURE plot: "By recent information...General Howe '''is nogoing reportto send out''' a number of the inhabitants...A sailor says that anya Americannumber soldiersof gotthese infectedcoming fromout themhave been inoculated with the design of spreading the smallpox through this...camp." What historians have done (see Ballard Campbell) is sift out the false rumors that were not true. [[User:Rjensen|Rjensen]] ([[User talk:Rjensen|talk]]) 09:0827, 15 March 2014 (UTC)