Henry Shrapnel
British Army general · Scientists · Lived 1761 to 1842 · aged 80
Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He invented the shrapnel shell, which was named after him.
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Lived 1761 to 1842 · aged 80