Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

The table is crowded with phials and bottles

Charles James Fox in the centre

petrol spilt onto the hot exhaust

Pierre-Simon Laplace was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789

Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat, 1874. Schenck (1809 1890) was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. In 1871 he was appointed US Minister to the United Kingdom by President Ulysses S Grant. At a reception for Queen Victoria in Somerset, Schenck was persuaded to write down his rules for the game of poker. The game rapidly became popular in Britain, where it was known as Schenck Poker.