Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction

During the French and Indian War, England found in Jeff Amherst an able and efficient commander. Amherst developed a plan for what may have been the first use of biological warfare in North America. He counseled Captain Simeon Ecuyer at Fort Pitt to provide the American Indians with smallpox-infected blankets in order to “Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations.”