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South Africa.
Lord Kitchener.
After the Boer War.
Black men received military training some from the British or others from the Boers.
A danger to British rule.
Sent home with smallpox blankets.
Anyone here know of the historicity of this?
Yeah, I know the British had done smallpox blankets before. And maybe smallpox in Sydney too.
In South Africa?
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