The longer and stronger guide-stick was one of Congreve’s innovations. For the Chesapeake campaign, which led to the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Royal Marine Artillery troops fired 12-pound ...

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"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory," he said.

in which the line “rockets red glare” is a reference to Congreve rockets used during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in ...