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Robert Blake: Months
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Blake was then stationed with 500 men at the garrison of Lyme in Dorset, which was besieged by Rupert's brother Prince Maurice in April 1644. The Royalists were powerless to prevent Parliament's navy from shipping in supplies and reinforcements, enabling the Parliamentarians to defend the town until it was relieved by the Earl of Essex on his ill-fated march into the West in June 1644. The following month Blake, now promoted to colonel, undertook a daring march from Lyme to Taunton, an important centre of communications in the heart of the Royalist-held West Country. Blake's force took Taunton and held the town for a year, surviving three sieges. Blake famously declared that he had four pairs of boots and would eat three pairs before he would surrender Taunton. The siege was finally lifted when Sir Thomas Fairfax sent a relief force in May 1645.
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Blake made his name during a series of sieges during the war. In April 1644 he took command of the town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. Supplied by the Parliamentary navy Blake conducted a successful defence for three months until relieved by the Earl of Essex. The following month Blake led his forces against Taunton, an important Royalist communications centre, and captured it. He resisted three Royalist sieges and held Taunton for a year until the siege was finally lifted in July 1645.
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Braun has been unsuccessfully attempting to get Blake released on bail. Earlier this month, he said the actor would appeal to the California Supreme Court a judge's recent decision to deny bail.
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