[Retain Mike]

My niece was taught in college that Christopher Columbus was a mass murderer using biological warfare as his weapon. Her professor and many other conveniently ignore the fact Europeans considered plague to be caused by cats.

Not until 1945 was an effective use of bioweapons contemplated. Occupation searchers uncover large stockpiles of viruses, spirochetes, and fungus spores throughout rural Japan. These biological pathogens had already been tested on several hundred thousand people in Chinese villages and on prisoners of war. Civilian militias were to stay behind advancing Americans to infuse pathogens into food and waters sources, to release infected animals and insects into American compounds, and to infect themselves with choleras and plaque germs.

Slavery would have been progressive social reformation to the New World. Tribes like the Aztecs slaughtered thousands in sacrifices to their gods. The Caribs killed and ate members of other tribes but brought the women to their villages. Here they were impregnated, and their babies roasted as a delicacy.

Looks like a great article. I put a copy in my copy of “The Log of Christopher Columbus”.

[Antoninus]

Not until 1945 was an effective use of bioweapons contemplated.

The old "plague blanket" story has nothing to do with Columbus. It is connected to a British officer named Geoffrey Amherst who suggested giving blankets used by smallpox victims to Indians.

It is a single incident, as far as I know, and not at all connected to Columbus or to Americans.

[lizma2]

Japan thought about doing biowarfare here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night