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They were originally used by the Kingdom of Mysore and the British took samples and developed the Congreve rocket.

By 1804, the British had copied and refined this weapon into a long range solid fuel rocket called the Congreve rocket.

The Congreve rockets were inspired by the rockets used by Mysore starting in 1780.

The Royal Navy fired Congreve rockets at Fort McHenry which lit up the sky, illuminating the American flag flying over the fort.

'Music has charms to soothe the savage breast', said Congreve Has category theory less charm?

You conveniently skipped over the bit about Congreve rockets, which were invented in the late 18th/early 19th century, explicitly for war, or the growing evidence about the use of gunpowder rocketry in Imperial China.

>> “the Mysorean, a prototype of British Congreve rockets used in the Napoleonic wars.” The Mysorean is a prototype of British Congreve rockets?

In The Star-Spangled Banner, the “rocket’s red glare” refers to British Congreve rockets that were copies of Mysore’s rockets made when they captured the arsenals after defeating Tipu Sultan by treachery.

The phrase "the rocket's red glare" refers to Congreve rockets, which were invented in the 19th century following the introduction of rockets into modern military use in India at the end of the 18th century.

Congreve, a medical doctor who is knowledgeable in such fields as geography, botany, and paleontology; by Noel Oxenden, a Cambridge scholar who is an expert on philology; and by Otto Melick, "a littérateur from London".

The Way of the World, by William Congreve, is full of them: a wannabe funnyman named Witwoud, a servant called Waitwell, Lady Fainall (feign-all), Lady Wishfort (wish for it).