Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray Theresa of Avila (1515-1582) was

Theresa of Avila (1515-1582) was a Spanish mystic and saint who reformed the Carmelite order

The table is crowded with phials and bottles

View with a horse-drawn wagon and a man pushing a handcart

and the barracks of the marines

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray Theresa of Avila (1515-1582) wasRobert 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.