military officer
Robert Blake.
military commander of the Commonwealth of England (1599-1657)
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About Robert Blake
General at Sea Robert Blake was an English naval officer who served as general at sea and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1656 to 1657. Blake served under Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War and Anglo-Spanish War, and as the commanding Admiral of the State's Navy during the First Anglo-Dutch War. Blake is recognised as the "chief founder of England's naval supremacy", a dominance subsequently inherited by the British Royal Navy well into the early 20th century.
Everything about Robert Blake →- Occupation
- military officer, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament, Member of the First Protectorate Parliament, Member of the 1653 Parliament
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1599, 1598
- Died
- August 17, 1657, August 7, 1657