Remember guys disease has been used as a weapon for a very long time (recorded in history as far back as Alexander the Great) - heck look at the damage that was done to the American Indian with smallpox
While you might need a lab to grow some exotic disease it wouldn't take much to have infected blankets or medical supplies used by one group to spread a naturally occurring disease among a weakened population
by the way I don't see the French as being that powerful in the Caribbean Islands - if they were I highly doubt New America would have wasted the resources they have on a pirate fleet that a single French corvette could lay to waste
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