“Exploding shells became far more deadly only after the Revolutionary War when in 1784, Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery invented the eponymous type

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“Exploding shells became far more deadly only after the Revolutionary War when in 1784, Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery invented the eponymous type