What health consideration has been called "one of Washington's best decisions" of the Revolutionary War?

What is the biggest killer of soldiers during war? You might say bullets or bombs, but you'd be wrong. It's disease. "Smallpox is ten times more terrible than the British, Canadians, and Indians together," John Adams lamented. Washington countered that by having his army inoculated against smallpox. Some accounts say this decision reduced smallpox deaths from 17% to 1%.

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