Smallpox+and+War

=Smallpox and War= However, the smallpox virus has also been used purposely as one of the first recorded biological warfare weapons. In the war of 1763 between France and Britain to win North America. The British commander-in-chief Sir Geoffrey Amherst ordered contaminated blankets to be deliberately given to hostile American Indian tribes to help aid their campaign. The addition of authentic letters from sir Geoffrey to Henry Bouquet a colonel provide evidence of this plot.

This pages bibliography: Image- http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/drawing.jpeg Written- Duffy, J 1951, Smallpox and the Indians in the American Colonies, Bull Hist Med. 1951, vol. 25, pp. 324-341. Oldstone, M 1998, Viruses, Plagues and History, pp. 45-72, Oxford University Press, New York, USA.