Poison gas (chlorine) was used for the first time at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. At around 17.00 hours on the 22nd April, French sentries in Ypres noticed a yellow-green cloud moving towards them - a gas delivered from pressurised cylinders dug into the German front line between Steenstraat and Langemarck. They thought that it was a smokescreen to disguise the movement forwards of German troops. As such, all troops in the area were ordered to the firing line of their trench - right in the path of the chlorine. Its impact was immediate and devastating. The French and their Algerian comrades fled in terror. Their understandable reaction created an opportunity for the Germans to advance unhindered into the strategically important Ypres salient. But even the Germans were unprepared and surprised by the impact of chlorine and they failed to follow up the success of the chlorine attack.
En man kommer in på ett bageri och blir expedierad av en söt ung flicka.- Jag skulle vilja ha tre av de där bullarna som kostar tre kronor stycket, säger han. Flickan ler och svarar:- I dag säljer jag sex för tio kronor. - Underbart, säger mannen. Då ger jag fan i bullarna...
EDIT: Oh. I remember this. That cool, but how the fuck is he standing on top of that point if he is fully slanted on the side of it? Wouldn't he fall off?
"I think we shall call him... STEPHANO."
Thus, a legend was born.