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ROBERT BLAKE (159'J-1657 



General and AdiinrnI al ■cfn. Illnke Teas n merchant seaman 

 before he retired and went into I'arliameni . and later made his 

 name as a cavalryman He was one nf the outstanding figures 

 — gallant, cool, an^l a clear thinker — and had much to do with 

 Die rei'i-'al of English prestige. 



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