Royal Navy commander plotted chemical weapons attack against US in world first

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A Royal Navy commander plotted a chemical weapons attack against the United States in what would have been a world first at the time, it has been revealed.A document unearthed from the bottom of a box at the National Records of Scotland has exposed what could have been the most devastating British assault on American forces.The 23-page memorandum reveals that Thomas Cochrane, a renegade Royal Navy commander, devised an audacious scheme to set alight vessels packed with sulphur, unleashing toxic fumes to disable crews of the American fleet.

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Had it been carried out, it would likely have constituted the first chemical weapons attack in recorded history.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Cochrane was poised to sail across the Atlantic with his arsenal of weaponry when a stock exchange fraud conviction intervened, stripping him of his command and keeping him in Britain.The memorandum, penned in 1844 by Mr Cochrane's secretary and bearing the commander's own handwritten annotations, was...

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