Show FIRST USE OF GAS IN WAR WARIn In n Crude Form That Weapon Was Wa Employed Centuries Before the Coming of Christ The earliest use of deleterious gases in do siege warfare Is recorded In the hIstory history history his his- tory of the wars from B. B C. C During this struggle between the Athenians and Spartans and tind their respective allies the cities of and Dellum were besieged Wood saturated with pitch and sul sulphur suli hur was set on lire fire and burned under the walls of these cities Jn o order der t generate choking and poisonous fumes which would stupefy the defender defenders and mid make the task of attacking forces less Jess difficult Another form of Ul same method of attack used about thin date was to fill a caldron with molten pitch sulphur and burning charcoal and und to blow the fumes with the aid of si 1 primitive form of bellows and air t blast Hast over the defenders' defenders lines Greek Greek Are fire about which much was wa lard beard In the wars of the middle ages was a liquid the composition of which is now unknown that was spurted through ugh the air chiefly In sea fights In order to set fire to the ships of the enemy and It was used by the Byzantine Byzantine tine Gr Greeks at nt the sieges of Constantinople Constantinople Constan In the years 1261 and 1412 |