Xarn thread

ITT we poast stuff that I will later send to <b>Xarn</b> or wecarpenters.org (j/k it’s gonna be on goodreads).

Ferdinand Foch

Isn't it nice how the wikipedia page on Chemical weapons in World War I admits that the French were the first to use any gas -- tear gas grenades -- and the first to develop and use phosgene as an upgrade to chlorine, but is completely silent on the intervening period of French use of chlorine? It wouldn't do to let the young ones know that the French used it before Ypres and that Ypres was the German reaction. At least they also admit in the gas casualties table that Germany suffered more gas casualties than France, which is not the impression one would get from reading the attack descriptions which focus almost exclusively on the German attacks.