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Henry Shrapnel [textual record]

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Date:

1781-1842.

Reference:

R4284-2-7-E, MG24-F113

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

115634

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Henry Shrapnel and family collection

Henry Shrapnel
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Date(s):

1781-1842.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of the correspondence, reports and drawings of Henry Shrapnel concerning the development of spherical case shot and other ordnance equipment. Also included are: his commissions, 1781-1837; a pocket aide memoire, 1797; an undated private manuscript on the use of "Shrapnel Shells"; and a series of patent drawings for musket and rifle designs by Shrapnel, c. 1830-1840.

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Shrapnel, Henry, 1761-1842

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Shrapnel, Henry, 1761-1842 : Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) entered the Royal Artillery in 1779 as a 2nd Lieutenant. From 1780 to 1784, he served at St. John's, Newfoundland. While there, in 1781, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. Immediately after his return to England in 1784, he proposed his spherical case shot to a committee of the Board of Ordnance. Henry Shrapnel rose to be Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery and Lieutenant General in the Army. Nevertheless, he died a poor, disappointed man, for he was poorly treated by the British Government.

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General note:

Two models of Shrapnel's tangent scale slide have been transferred to the Canadian War Museum.

Source:

Private

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MG24-F113
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Volume [MG24 F 113]

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1;

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2/1--2/5;

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Volume [R4284] 5

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