I found an article on rockets that I found interesting:
Congreve rockets were soon systematically used by the British during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1806 Boulogne, France was bombarded by British rockets and suffered a devastating fire. In 1807 Copenhagen, Denmark was burnt by a British attack with more than 14,000 various missiles in the form of grenades, bombs and rockets of which about 300 were Congreve rockets.[8] In 1813 Danzig, Prussia, was similarly attacked, setting the city's food stores on fire and resulting in surrender. The only British unit at the "Battle of the Nations" (Leipzig October 1813) was a detachment of Royal Horse Artillery armed with Congreve rockets.
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It is interesting to note that the British and not the Nazis were the first to use rockets to make cross-channel attacks! And ones with really no military target in mind.
While not advocating that the later use of the V1 or V2 was a retaliatory measure it is interesting to note that the British were the first ones to use them as a "terror" weapon.
I can only wonder at how the folks in Bologne thought of the British with their weapons of mass destruction! [;)]
Colonel Bill Peters
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