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Shovel, Sir Cloudesley
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A celebrated English admiral, born at Clay, in Norfolk; was apprenticed to a cobbler, but ran away to sea, and rose from grade to grade till in 1674 we find him a lieutenant in the Mediterranean fleet; was knighted in 1689 for his gallantry as commander of a ship in the battle of Bantry Bay, and in the following year as rear-admiral was prominent at the engagement off Beachy Head; in 1692 gave heroic assistance to Admiral Russell at La Hogue, and in 1702 to Rooke at Malaga; elevated to the commandership of the English fleets he in 1705 captured Barcelona, but on his way home from an unsuccessful attack upon Toulon was wrecked on the Scilly Isles and drowned (1650-1707).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Shovel, Sir Cloudesley'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/shovel-sir-cloudesley.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Shovel, Sir Cloudesley'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/shovel-sir-cloudesley.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
