On 9/8/2010 2:20 AM, Michele wrote:
> There is the detail that by WWI, and later, people could produce gas masks
> and chemical-proof garments. Which would somewhat more difficult to do at
> the time of Alexander the Great or, for that matter, Napoleon.
> Also, by the time of Saddam, armies did not rely on horses and
> self-propelled meat supplies, which even today would be difficult to protect
> effectively.
>
It is interesting, though a bit of a tangent, that cloth-making in
classical Greek days could easily produce literally killing clothes.
Heracles reputedly died of that.
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