After Fort Ticonderoga was overun by French and Indian Forces the Indians took blankets from the Fort as booty. Yes, smallpox was present at Fort Ticonderoga. It was present throughout the North American colonies. It is vicious nonsense for this article to imply or state that smallpox was purposefully spread when colonists themselves had no knowledge of how diseases spread.
This is so much crap!
there are extant documents from the PAPAL WARS of "special warfare" in the form of poisons, infected materials & "flame weapons" being used against beseiged cities. one method was throwing the bodies,clothing & bedding of the diseased dead over the city walls with catapults.
also there are official church documents from the colonial period that talk of exactly the sort of "germ warfare" mentioned in this thread.