Show FIRST USE OF GAS GAS IN WARIn WAR WAR- J In Crude Form That Weapon Was t Employed Centuries Before the tho Coming of Christ The earliest use of deleterious gases gast's in siege warfare Is recorded In the history history his hits tory of ot the Peloponnesian wars ars from B. B C. C During this struggle between the Athenians Athenians' and Spartans and their respective allies the time cities of or and Dellum were besieged Wood saturated with pitch and sulphur sul sul- sulphur was set on fire and burned under unde the walls of these cities In order t generate choking and poisonous fumes which would stupefy the defenders 1 and make the task o of attacking forces force less difficult Another form of the th j- j same method of a attack used about thlu date was to fill flU a n caldron with molten 1 t pitch sulphur and burning charcoal and to blow the fumes with the aid o oC of oCa ofa a n primitive e form of bellows and nir J blast over o the defenders' defenders lines Greek-fire Greek about which much wa wn way 1 heard In in- inthe the wars of the middle a ages es was a liquid the composition of which Is now v unknown that was as spurted through h the air all chiefly In sen sea fights f J I In order to set fire to the ships of the enemy and it was used by the Byzantine tine Greeks at the sieges of Constantinople Con Constan Constantinople f In the years years- 1261 and 1412 |