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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by vacri on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:58AM (#11900882)
Trench warfare well pre-dates the US civil war. They were used at least as far back as the War of the Spanish Succession (1700s). The Maori also used trenches when fighting against the British, two decades before the US civil war.
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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by logfromblammo on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @12:06PM (#11902940)
Vauban [0] designed his first handbook for trench warfare after the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. Prior to that, siege mining and sapping had been used by Rome and Warring States China since about the 4th century BCE. This also marked the first purported use of poison gas in warfare, when the tunnels were intentionally filled with smoke.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Le_Prestre_de_V...

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