| ORIGINS AND EARLY MILITARY USES | ||
By 1730, a German field artillery colonel by the name of Christoph Fredrich von Geissler was manufacturing rockets weighing between 55 and 120 pounds. The British, led by Sir William Congrieve, developed a series of rockets ranging in weight from 18 to 300 pounds. Several different Congrieve-designed rockets were used against Napoleon. However, Napoleon seems to have made no use of rockets in the French Army. |
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