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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: History of Grenades
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Date: 5 Jul 89 12:37:24 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)

>... confusion in the terms "grenade", "bomb", and "shell."
>Consider,too, the Star Spangled Banner: "the bombs bursting in air."

Which, of course, were in fact rockets!

(Really.  Congreve solid-fuel war rockets were standard equipment for
the British armed forces at the time.  They passed out of use later,
when "tube artillery" (guns) got better.)

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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