Congreve rocket | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-29

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00:01:20 1 Early Indian rockets
00:03:49 1.1 Second Anglo-Mysore War
00:04:18 1.2 Third Anglo-Mysore War
00:05:19 1.3 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
00:09:39 2 William Congreve
00:11:28 3 Design
00:17:10 4 Use of Congreve rockets
00:17:20 4.1 Napoleonic Wars
00:24:34 4.2 War of 1812
00:27:43 4.3 Bombardment of Algiers 27 August 1816
00:29:15 4.4 First Anglo-Burmese War
00:29:48 4.5 Congress Poland and November Uprising
00:31:45 4.6 Opium Wars
00:32:10 4.7 New Zealand Wars
00:33:05 4.8 Triple Alliance War
00:34:42 5 Surviving rockets
00:36:00 6 Published descriptions
00:39:03 7 In popular culture



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The Congreve rocket was a British military weapon designed and developed by Sir William Congreve in 1804, based directly on Mysorean rockets.
The Kingdom of Mysore in India used Mysorean rockets as a weapon against the British in the wars that they fought against the British East India Company. Lieutenant General Thomas Desaguliers, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery in Woolwich, was influenced by the reports about their effectiveness, and he undertook several unsuccessful experiments. Several Mysore rockets were sent to Woolwich for studying and reverse-engineering following the Second, Third, and Fourth Mysore wars. (Congreve's father was now the comptroller of the Royal Arsenal.)  Even so, Congreve had to start his project in 1804 with his own funds. The first demonstration of his solid fuel rockets was in September 1805. The rockets were used effectively during the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824–1826.