English physician Edward Jenner, born this day in 1749, gets all the credit for invention of inoculation against small pox in 1796, but the practice was common in the American Colonies at least 20 years earlier. The ways General Washington bested the enemy were many and often down to sheer luck. For example, of Washington, a senior British commander, said, “he didn’t out general us; he out spied us”. Most historians agree on one thing, however. George’s bold medical decision changed the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
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