Talk:Siege of Fort Pitt

That Invoice has clearly been mistranscribed
INVOICE for 1763 June Levy, Trent and Company: Account against the Crown, Aug. 13, 1763[26] To Sundries got to Replace in kind those which were taken from people in the Hospital to Convey the Smallpox to the Indians Vizt:

2 Blankets @ 20/ £299 099 0

1 Silk Handkerchef 10/

& 1 linnen do: 3/6 099 1399 6

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I have found numerous text copies of the above on the internet.

But:

• does anyone know where to find a .pdf of the original handwritten document?

The numbers after each priced item are meaningless, looking more like book ISBNs than financial details. Methinks whoever scanned or transcribed them knew absolutely nothing about currency in pounds, shillings and pence.

I should like to see the original, and to work out where all those misplaced digits came from.

Most ridiculous is the following:

'2 blankets @ 20/ £299'

- Well, twice twenty shillings is £2, surely?

- And, in those days, £300 would have paid for a substantial part of the fortifications - perhaps even a cannon or six. At the very least, can we not go in and at least put white space between the £2 and the 99?

Eric Colvin (talk) 06:56, 24 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I've made it match the source, which is an improvement. Doug Weller  talk 10:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

War crime
I see this article is in the "British war crimes" category. However, can a primitive attempt at biological warfare in 1763 be considered a war crime? The Geneva Protocol that prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons in international warfare did not even exist until 1925. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:2748:6F00:189A:208D:CBE6:45E7 (talk) 20:10, 25 October 2020 (UTC)