| ORIGINS AND EARLY MILITARY USES | ||
In 1300, rockets were in the arsenals of many Western European countries. By 1500 they could be found in Italy, then Germany, and later, the British Isles. A 1647 study, titled "The Art of Gunnery," contains a 43-page segment on rockets and rocketry. In the Siege of Orleans, during the Hundred Year War, the French army used rockets against the British. The Dutch began to use rockets in their military around 1650, and Germany’s first military rocket experiments came in 1668. |
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