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HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
 
1100 BC:- Offensive use of flame. The book of Judges 15:4, states that Samson caught 300 foxes,attached firebrands to them and set them out amongthe fields of the Philistines to burn their crops.
EARLY BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
600 BC:-Solon, the legislator of the Athenians,contaminated the River Pleisthenes with hellebores(skunk cabbage) to give the defenders of Kirrhaviolent diarrhea leading to their defeat. This is thefirst recorded use of plants as a source of chemicalsfor warfare
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431-404 BC;-Peloponnesian War. The first recorded use of poisonous and suffocating gases. During the siege of thecities of Platea and Pelium, the Spartans used wood,saturated with itch and sulfur set afire to roduce sulhur 
EARLY BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
 
 
dioxide gas. A sudden rain made the first attack fail but fiveyears later the same type of attack was a completesuccess.
200 BC;-A Carthaginian general ordered a retreat, leavingbehind a large quantity of wine poisoned with mandragora,a root containing a narcotic. After the enemy soldiersdrank the wine and fell asleep the Carthaginians returnedand massacred them.
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