Biological warfare: Facts

in 1346, the Black Plague (illustration pictured) infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?
in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs, a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?

Facts on topics related to Biological warfare

during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (pictured) destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?

vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?

Napoleonic Wars military historian Ramsay Weston Phipps helped to blow up the docks at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) when he was a young Royal Artillery lieutenant?
Carl Oscar Munthe, a Commander of Fredrikstad Fortress and Bergenhus Fortress, wrote several books on military history?
in 1346, the Black Plague (illustration pictured) infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?

18th century French artilleries were the most efficient at cannon operation (pictured), capable of firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege?
Tang Dynasty general Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege by another general, Liu Qia?
Götz von Berlichingen, a knight of the Holy Roman Empire, wore a prosthetic hand made of iron after losing his hand in the siege of Landshut in 1508?
Saint Terence was proclaimed the patron saint of Pesaro for appearing in times of crisis, lifting a siege of the Italian town by French troops?
when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan?

the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States, and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?

despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892?
in the Battle of Flores (illustrated), a naval engagement of the 1585 Anglo-Spanish War, the Spanish fleet of warships outnumbered the English warships, 63 to 22?
the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?