Aerial Bombing of Venice, 1849

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The Aerial Bombing of Venice, 1849

Remarks: One of the earliest uses of aerial bombardment, in which Austrian troops surrounding the city of Venice targeted the city with unmanned balloons carrying explosives

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• Wikipedia entry for History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• The First Air Raid - By Balloons!
• Venice: City of the Sea  at books.google.com by Edmund Flagg, includes an account of the Austrian balloon attacks on Venice (pgs. 402-406)
• More About Balloons , Scientific American, Vol. 4, No. 26 (March 17, 1849)

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