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Robert Blake
Robert Blake was an English admiral who commanded the navy of the Commonwealth. A Parliamentarian officer in the English Civil War, he became a general at sea in 1649, destroyed Prince Rupert's royalist fleet, took Jersey and the Scilly Isles in 1651 and fought the Dutch in the First Anglo-Dutch War. His destruction of a Spanish treasure fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1657 came shortly before his death.
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