"What was Shrapnel’s Shell?" Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 Apr 2018 12:00 p.m. PST |
"…The shell was initially known as spherical case shot and was not titled ‘shrapnel' until June 1852, on order of a government select committee, some ten years after the inventor's death.2 Henry Shrapnel was born on 3 June 1761 the youngest son of nine children and commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 9 July 1779.3 Following his initial active service in Newfoundland, from 1780 until 1784, he returned to England and began to develop, at his own expense, a hollow Shell…"
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| Private Matter | 13 Apr 2018 8:02 a.m. PST |
That is timely as I was just reading a historical novel set in 1811 which has one of the characters referring to a "sharpenal shell which bears the name of its designer" or words to that effect. Reading the article I found it interesting. How would your translate this into wargaming terms for large battles and the effectiveness of British artillery? |
| Tango01 | 13 Apr 2018 10:50 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!.
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