Show FIRST USE OF GAS IN WAR in crude form that weapon was wa employed centuries before the tha coming of christ the earliest use up of deleterious gases in siege warfare Is recorded in we uie history of the peloponnesian wars units from IS 13 C during this struggle between the athenians and spartans spartano Spar tans and their respective allies the cities of painten Ia aten and deleigh IN were ere besieged bod RII pitch if ebur z wo was q tel aa on fire and burned bilm I 1 the walls walls of ibele these cities in order tl generate choking and poisonous fumes which would stupefy the defenders nod and make inake the task of dititta king forces less lesa difficult another form of some bame method of attack used about taij date was to 0 o fill a caldron with molten pitch sulphur and burning charcoal and to blow the he fumes with the old aid of 0 a primitive form of bellows and aar blast over the defenders lines hoes greek fire ire about which much wai heard in the wars of the middle flees ages was it liquid the conico composition atlon of which Is in now unknown that flint ans spurted spur leil through the air chiefly in sen fights in order to set fire to the ships hips of the enemy and it was wag used by the byzantine greeks at the sieges of dinople in the years 1261 and 1412 |