Talk:Shrapnel shell

Until someone provides supporting evidence, I have moved to here the claim:

"The "Shrapnel shell" was first used in combat in 1804 when the British seized part of Dutch Surinam [sic] establishing British Guiana."

This sounded like a fascinating snippet of obscure history so I attempted to research more detail, but could find very little in the way of references; the few I did find variously seemed to be based on this article, or to contain obvious errors (e.g. putting Suriname in Batavia). Furthermore, it appears that the British captured British Guiana in 1796 (seven years before the shell was adopted), not 1804; and that after Napoleon effectively annexed the Netherlands in 1795, Suriname itself was completely occupied by the British from 1799 until 1816.--Roger 05:54 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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It would be nice if someone corrected the "homocide bombing" label of the "suicide bombing" link. --Craiky 04:40, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

use of Shrapnel/shrapnel

The Shrapnel shell is a means of taking the action of a cannister round closer to the enemy. strictly the term shrapnel ought to limited only to the shell, but the word shrapnel has come to mean bits of metal (whatever the source) from an explosion. GraemeLeggett 16:18, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)