Robert Venables

Robert Venables (* 1612 or 1613; † July 1687 ) was a British military, known as the conqueror of Jamaica for Britain.

Venables was a lieutenant in the English Civil War and was wounded at Chester 1645. In 1648 he became governor of Liverpool. 1649 to 1654 he served under Oliver Cromwell as a colonel and later major general of Ulster ( and Governor of Londonderry ) during its conquest of Ireland.

He is known as a troop commander in an abortive military operation against the Spaniards in the Caribbean, the 1654 Cromwell ordered. The naval commander was William Penn. December 1654 stood the expedition to sea and reached in January 1655 Barbados. In April, they attacked Hispaniola, but were defeated by the Spaniards. Then they turned to Jamaica, where they conquered the capital of Spanish Town with relatively little resistance in May. The expedition was ill-equipped, undisciplined troops, there was Dissenzen between Venerables and Penn and failures due to disease - also Venerables ill. Venerables also made ​​management mistakes and never won the confidence of his soldiers and officers, whom he accused of cowardice in Hispaniola after the defeat. In July, he sailed back and landed after returning in September as a prisoner in the Tower. Although he was released back in December, but lost his rank of general and was under Cromwell no other command. In the first restoration George Monck made ​​him the governor of Chester, which was soon revoked it.

He is also known by a book about fishing (The experienced angler 1662), published with a foreword by his friend Izaak Walton. During the lifetime of Venables, it experienced five editions and appeared even in 1827.

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