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Robert Blake (1599-1657) was a British admiral of the Parliamentary forces.

Short Biography:

Appointed "general-at-sea" in 1649, he destroyed Prince Rupert's privateering fleet off Cartagena, Spain, in the following year.

In 1652 he won several engagements against the Dutch.

In 1654 he bornbarded Tunis, the stronghold of the Barbary corsairs, and in 1657 captured the Spanish treasure fleet in Santa Cruz.

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