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Chlorine gas attack at Ypres (1915)
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22 Apr 1915 — A green-yellow chlorine cloud rolls over French colonial troops at Langemarck: the first mass poison-gas attack. By 1918 gas has killed some 90,000 and maimed a million more. Remember what industrial chemistry did here.
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- Gallipoli and the widening of WWI (chapter 6 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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