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Robert Blake: Los Angeles
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Solidly in the top ten for the 1976 - 77 season, Robert Blake announced he would not return for a fourth year of Baretta because of a contract dispute with Universal. The studio, faced with losing one of its top productions, acquiesced. With an offer of more money and control over every aspect of the program, Blake decided to return.
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Blake's next adventures were during the First Anglo-Dutch War. The war started prematurely with a skirmish between the Dutch fleet of Maarten Tromp and Blake off Folkestone on 29 May 1652, the Battle of Goodwin Sands. The proper war started in June with an English campaign against the Dutch East Indies, Baltic and fishing trades by Blake, in command of around 60 ships. On 5 October 1652 Dutch Vice-Admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With, underestimating the strength of the English, attempted to attack Blake, but due to the weather it was Blake who attacked on 8 October 1652 in the Battle of the Kentish Knock, sending de With back to the Netherlands in defeat. The English government seemed to think that the war was over and sent ships away to the Mediterranean. Blake had only 42 warships when he was attacked and decisively defeated by 88 Dutch ships under Tromp on 9 December 1652 in the Battle of Dungeness, losing control of the English Channel to the Dutch.
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Blake won his greatest victory in April 1657 when he attacked another Spanish treasure fleet which had docked in the strongly-defended harbour of Santa Cruz on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. In a similar manoeuvre to the attack on Porto Fariña in 1655, Blake braved the shore batteries and sailed his fleet into Santa Cruz harbour. The guns of the Spanish forts were silenced with a naval bombardment, and every one of the Spanish ships in the harbour was destroyed without the loss of a single English ship. Blake's victory resounded around Europe, making the English navy feared and respected everywhere.
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Caldwell ... allegedly accompanied Blake and Bakley on a trip in March 2001. The three visited Parker, Ariz., 240 miles east of Los Angeles, and Three Rivers, Calif., 160 miles north of the city.
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In 1657, Blake won against the Spanish West Indian Fleet over the English seizure of Jamaica in the West Indies. On April 20 that year, Blake totally destroyed a Spanish silver fleet of 16 ships at Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife for the loss of one ship, and despite being under fire from shore batteries and attacking and withdrawing on the tide, an action for which Blake was given an expensive diamond ring by Cromwell, and which would earn him respect 140 years later from Lord Nelson who lost his arm there in a failed attack. Lord Nelson's respect ranked Robert Blake as one of the greatest Naval Generals ever known, even when compared with his own reputation.
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On March 27, 2003, Court TV reported that Robert Blake had appeared at Los Angeles Superior Court for his arraignment and answered not guilty to charges of murdering Bonnie Lee Bakley, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation. Blake ... denied the so-called special circumstance of lying in wait.
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