daw@houxs.UUCP (David "Cowboy Dan" Wolverton) (10/27/87)
In article <855@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>, geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) writes: > (The diseases the white man brought killed more natives than > their weapons, incidentally.) Actually, they practiced an early form of "biological warfare": the whites spread the diseases by giving blankets and other personal items from infected people to uninfected Native Americans. Therefore I consider the diseases you mention (e.g. smallpox) to have been one of the weapons. This discussion does not belong in comp.sys.mac. Please move it elsewhere. Dave Wolverton ihnp4!houxs!daw