[395] “The Bombardier,” 1802, p. 147.
[396] Danduli Chronicon, Muratori, xii. 448, in Elliot, vi. 469.
[397] In Elliot, vol. iii.
[398] In Elliot, vii. 125.
[399] In the war of Chiozza. During the attack on the Torre della Bebbe, “furono tirate molte rochette.”—Muratori, xv. 769.
[400] “Ecce quidam adolescens ... quid Græcus ignis potest experiri vellet ... fusum sulphure ignitum ... ad quamdam domum, stipula et stramine coopertam, maximo impetu traxit. Iterum, alium et alium transjecit. Acriori incendio edes accense concremantur.”—Œuvres de R. Blondel, pub. by “Soc. de l’Hist. de Normandie,” ii. 74. Little is known of Blondel’s life, but he was alive in the year 1460. I believe fusus to be the fusée de feu of the Livre de Canonerie, Paris, 1561 (Reinaud and Favé, p. 140), and this incendiary was not a rocket.
[401] “Hist. of Tipu Sultan,” by Husain Kirmani, trans. by Col. Miles, p. 145.
[402] “Hist, of Tipu Sultan,” by Husain Kirmani, p. 109.
[403] “Narrative of the Conquest of Mysore,” Hull, 1804, p. 50.
[404] “Narrative of the Campaign with Tippoo Sultan,” London, 1793, p. 209.