First recorded use of germ warfare as an official British strategy against Native people.
Date: 1763
Regarding the Lenape/"Delaware" communities at Fort Pitt, militia Captain William Trent writes: “Out of our regard to them… we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect." Continued germ warfare is documented in letters between British commanders. Incidents are referred to before this, but are not officially claimed in strategic records.