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Blake, Robert 1599-1657.  
English admiral who was a Parliamentarian during the English Civil War and pursued the Royalist fleet to the Mediterranean Sea, where he defeated it (1650).
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Blake, Robert

admiral who, as commander of the navy of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, became one of the most renowned seamen in English history.

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