This is from, me, Jocetta - apologies to Malcom MacMalcolm who will get the original of this with only my email address. Ooops.
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- To: Neil Maclay <nmaclay@psi.prc.com>
- Subject: Re: Llamas
- From: Joyce Baldwin <jocetta@ibm.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:14:28 -0700
- References: <199706121535.LAA29110@decsrv.psi.prc.com>
- Reply-To: jocetta@ibm.net
<snip> > It is interesting to note that for the Spanish, > armored calvery was their decisive tactical advantage rather > than their firearms. <snip> It is also interesting to note that their smallpox - an endemic disease among Europeans of that period - was even more effective than either against a New World population with absolutely no immunity to it. (I'm currently reading _Plagues and Peoples_ by William H. McNeil, Anchor Books/Doubleday, New York 1977. A fascinating study of the historical effects of diseases.)
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