Missiles in Europe

In 1429 French troops under the command of Jeanne d'arc with the help of rockets to defend Orleans in the battle against the British. Subsequently, the missiles were replaced by more accurate weapons - guns.
Starting from the XVI century rockets were used in celebratory fireworks, first in Italy and then in other European countries. And only in the late eighteenth century, they were again used in combat. In 1792, British troops in India came under fire small metal missiles, their effectiveness was so great that Colonel Congreve decided to create a missile weapon for British troops. In 1804 he made a simple rocket to extremely destructive weapons with explosive or incendiary warhead. But the accuracy of this weapon remained low until about 1844, when the Englishman William Hale invented stabilization method: the curved vanes in the nozzle forced the missile to spin during flight, which gave her stability.