This Week on Dispatches: Richard Werther on George Washington and the First Mandatory Immunization

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November 20, 2021
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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Richard Werther talks about his recent article about how small pox threatened to derail the American cause by depleting troops strengths and George Washington’s realization that ordering universal inoculation for his army was necessary to prosecute the war.

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