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Robert Blake: Men
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Robert Blake was above all a leader of men. All commentators are agreed that he was the one English naval commander of his age that could get his captains to obey him. He achieved the love and respect of his men without recourse to the brutal sanctions that were to become the stock in trade of the eighteenth century Navy.In everything Blake maintained humility, humanity and a total dedication to duty. He is the unsung midwife of the British Navy.
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In April 1655 Blake was sent to the Mediterranean again to extract compensation from the piratical states that had been attacking English shipping. The Bey of Tunis alone refused compensation, and with 15 ships Blake destroyed the 2 shore batteries and 9 Algerian ships in Porto Farina, the first time shore batteries had been taken out without landing men ashore.
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Around 8:30, Blake was seen in the men's room at Vitello's by a patron who witnessed him pulling at his hair, mumbling to himself, and vomiting into a trashcan. When Blake walked out of the men's room, he appeared somewhat agitated, shaky and ill.
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Mention the British Navy and everyone's heard of Francis Drake and Horatio Nelson but Robert Blake? Yet in his lifetime Blake was a national hero, first as a soldier in the Civil War and then as a naval commander. When he died he was given a prestigious state funeral.
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