enabled higher thrust and longer range for the missile (up to range). After Tipu's eventual defeat in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and the capture of the Mysore iron rockets, they were influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, which was soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars. According to Stephen Oliver Fought and John F. Guilmartin, Jr. in Encyclopædia Britannica (2008): See also List of Indian princely states Hyderabad State Mysorean invasion of Malabar Political integration of India Mughal Empire References Bibliography Further reading Yazdani, Kaveh. India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) (Leiden: Brill), 2017. xxxi + 669 pp. online review Empires and kingdoms of India Former countries in South Asia Former monarchies of South Asia Historical Indian regions History of Karnataka Princely states of India States and territories established in 1399 States and territories disestablished in 1948 1399 establishments in Asia 1950 disestablishments in India 14th-century establishments in India Former kingdoms