The British 32 pound Congreve Rocket. It sure made a spectacle of itself. It stained the whole sky red and made a horrendous racket but just how effective was it? Besides perhaps scaring people with weak hearts to death, they were actually pretty useless. After more than 25 hours of bombardment, we only lost 4 men killed and 25 men wounded. Oh, and what about those bombs bursting in air?
