Editing Congreve rocket (section)

==In popular culture==

* The words "Rocket's red glare" in the US anthem "[[Star-Spangled Banner]]" refer to a Congreve rocket barrage.
* In ''[[Age of Empires III]]'', the British civilization has rockets as a unique unit based on the Congreve rocket.
* In ''[[Mount & Blade: Warband#Napoleonic Wars|Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars]]'', British rocket artillery are a playable class.
* In ''[[Empire: Total War]]'', Congreve rockets are a usable artillery unit.
* In [[Bernard Cornwell]]'s novel ''[[Sharpe's Enemy]]'', and its [[Sharpe's Enemy (TV programme)|television adaptation]], Congreve rockets appear and are instrumental in the victory at the end. Cornwell also describes the historical firing of a rocket during the [[Waterloo campaign]] in his later novel ''[[Sharpe's Waterloo]]''.
* In [[George Macdonald Fraser]]'s novel ''[[Flashman at the Charge]],'' [[Harry Flashman]] uses Congreve rockets captured from the Russians to help repel a Russian assault in Central Asia.
* In [[Timothy Mo]]'s novel about the foundation of [[Hong Kong]], ''An Insular Possession'', Congreve rockets are used by Captain Elliot from the steamer ''Nemesis'' against Chinese forts on the [[Pearl River (China)|Pearl River]].
* ''[[Death to the French]]'', a novel by [[C. S. Forester]]. On pages 111 to 113, a graphic fictional description of the action on 13 November 1810 when they tried unsuccessfully to fire the French dockyard at Santarem with rockets.
* In the TV series ''[[The Terror (TV series)|The Terror]]'', Congreve rockets are carried by [[Franklin's lost expedition]] and used in a skirmish.
* In [[Tessa Dare]]'s [[Regency Romance]], The Duchess Deal (2017), the hero protagonist, the Duke of Ashbury, has survived severe injury by a malfunctioning Congreve rocket at [[Waterloo campaign|Waterloo]] (chapter 17).
* In the [[The Old Man and the Lisa]], an episode of the TV series, [[The Simpsons]], [[Mr. Burns]] attempts to right his finances by investing heavily in a Congreve rocket company, among other outdated technologies.