<P> Before the war, Amherst had dismissed the possibility that the Native Americans would offer any effective resistance to British rule, but that summer he found the military situation becoming increasingly grim . He ordered subordinates to "immediately...put to death" captured enemy Native American warriors . To Colonel Henry Bouquet at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was preparing to lead an expedition to relieve Fort Pitt, Amherst wrote on about June 29, 1763: "Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them ." Bouquet responded to Amherst (summer of 1763): </P> <P> P.S. I will try to inocculate (sic) the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself . As it is pity to oppose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniard's Method, and hunt them with English Dogs . Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine . </P> <P> In a postscript, Amherst replied: </P> <P> P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate (sic) the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race . I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present . </P>

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