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Identifier: historicalportra02walk (find matches)
Title: Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ring and ability. At Lyme with500 men he successfully defied Prince Maurices army for a wholemonth until he was relieved by sea, and on July 8, 1644, he surprisedTaunton, the strategical key to that part of England. After the lossof Essexs army in Cornwall he was entirely isolated. He preparedto defend his untenable position. The first Ro3alist assault wasrepulsed, and an investment followed, but Blake held out until June1645, when the victory of his party at Naseby at last brought himrelief. Taunton had been reduced to ruins, but its magnificentdefence had won Blake a great reputation. Little further is heardof him until 1649, when he was created Admiral and General-at-sea.It is probable that as a thriving West Country merchant he hadmade vo^ages in his youth. It has been asserted that Cromwellwas jealous of him, but the fact of Blakes naval appointment dis-credits the story, and nothing in Cromwells subsequent behaviourlends any colour to it. The first object of the Commonwealth was
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