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    When were grenades first used in warfare?

    Question #69638. Asked by starNumberA399. (Aug 12 06 9:16 PM)


    Brainyblonde

    		The use of the word 'grenade' in the English language apparently originated in the Glorious Revolution (1688), where cricket ball-sized iron spheres packed with gunpowder and fitted with slow-burning wicks were first used against the Jacobites in the battles of Killiecrankie and Glen Shiel.
    the trench warfare favored the grenade. In a letter to his sister, Colonel Hugh Robert Hibbert, described an improvised grenade employed during the Crimea War.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenades

    Aug 12 06, 9:55 PM
    elburcher

    		Grenades have played a part in warfare for hundreds of years. They were originally developed around 1000 AD by the Chinese, just one application of their revolutionary gunpowder technology. Europeans came up with their own versions in the 15th and 16th centuries, with mixed results.

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/grenade.htm

    Aug 12 06, 10:40 PM

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