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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 4273805, member: 94602&quot;]Alan or whoever wrote this, left out a good part of the story which is as follows below. If you wonder what the heck Genoa had to do in Crimea, well they bought Kaffa from the Mongols who later attacked them...Useful history lesson for people to reconsider whom to choose as their allies.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>In 1343, Jani Beg, the new Kahn of the Golden Horde, attacked Caffa with his Turkish mercenaries. After 3 years of siege, the Turks were completely fed up and suffering from plague, so they decided to use their own infected dead as weapons. They used catapults to launch the dead plague corpses into the city, until the defenders sickened and died. The contemporary historian Gabriele de’ Mussi tells us:</i></p><p><i>What seemed like mountains of dead were thrown into the city, and the Christians could not hide or flee or escape from them, although they dumped as many of the bodies as they could in the sea. And soon the rotting corpses tainted the air and poisoned the water supply. … Moreover one infected man could carry the poison to others, and infect people and places with the disease by look alone.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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