In 1799, Tipu Sultan ruler of Mysore was killed in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore war. During the war the British had faced a new military weapon, the Mysore rocket, d

In 1799, Tipu Sultan ruler of Mysore was killed in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore war. During the war the British had faced a new military weapon, the Mysore rocket, developed by Tipu's army. By 1804, the British had copied and refined this weapon into a long range solid fuel rocket called the Congreve rocket. In the War of 1812 the British entered Washington DC and burned down the White House. The Royal Navy fired Congreve rockets at Fort McHenry which lit up the sky, illuminating the American flag flying over the fort. Later Francis Scott Key memorializing the event in a poem that became the national anthem of the U.S.A : "The Star-Spangled Banner" ... And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; ... Next time you hear the U.S national anthem - remember that those rockets trace their origin to Tipu Sultan :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#Chesapeake_campaign_and_%22The_Star-Spangled_Banner%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#Chesapeake_campaig... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner#Lyrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner#Lyric...