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Honnold Library Record: Rockets for Napoleon
From the Honnold Library Record, Volume 4, Number 1. Spring 1961:
Rockets for Napoleon
One of the less used reference books in the Honnold Library is A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary (London, 1802) by Charles James. The compiler notes that the use of rockets in warfare has recently been discussed. He suggests that rockets might be carried by cavalry [may we not substitute the word “tanks”?] and that they might also be carried aboard ship. Concerning the latter proposal he says, “There would certainly be some danger in the experiment, although in my humble opinion, a little experience would effectually remove that difficulty; in which case ships might run along a coast, and easily destroy the wooden forts that are sometimes erected upon it . . . By means of their natural velocity they [i.e., rockets] would do more execution, in a less space of time, than the most active piece of ordnance would effect; and they would require fewer hands.”
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What is the Honnold Library Record?
The Honnold Library Record, published from 1958 until 1975, was the publication of the Honnold Library Society, the friends of the library group, founded in 1954. All the issues of the Honnold Library Record are available online in the CCDL in the Honnold Library Record Collection.
— michael | June 25, 2007 11:37 AM | The more you know
