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John Blankett
Rear-Admiral John Blankett, (c. 1740 – 14 July 1801) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth century who served in three major wars, but was best known for his service in the Red Sea during the late stages French Revolutionary Wars when he blocked French ambitions in the Indian Ocean.
==Life==
Blankett was born in approximately 1740 and by 1758 was a midshipman in the Royal Navy, serving in HMS ''Somerset'' at the Siege of Louisbourg and the capture of Quebec. In 1761 he wrote a report on the possibility of a Northwest Passage and was promoted to lieutenant. Shortly afterwards he was convicted of murder at Gibraltar and sentenced to death, but was later reprieved. In 1763 he traveled to Russia to obtain intelligence about the recent Russian exploration of the northern Pacific coast.〔(Blankett, John ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', J. K. Laughton and Clive Wilkinson, (subscription required), Retrieved 9 June 2015〕
In the early 1770s Blankett was again in Russia in preparation for an exploration mission to the Pacific, although this was later cancelled by Lord Sandwich. The aftermath of this caused Blankett to openly associate with Sandwich's political enemies, particularly Lord Shelburne, whom he supplied with naval information for use against Sandwich in Parliament. During the American Revolutionary War Blankett served on HMS ''Victory'' and then commanded HMS ''Nymph'' and HMS ''Rippon'' in the Caribbean, although his services were no longer required after 1780.〔
In 1784 after the end of the war Blankett was recalled to service in command of HMS ''Thetis'' in the Mediterranean, receiving an honour from King Ferdinand of Sicily. In 1790 he was appointed to HMS ''Leopard'', escorting a convoy to China and the commanded HMS ''America'' on an operation to the Cape of Good Hope during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1795 he participated in the invasion and capture of the Dutch Cape Colony. In 1798 he was given an independent command in ''Leopard'', tasked with preventing the use of the Red Sea by the French, who had invaded Egypt earlier in the year under General Napoleon Bonaparte. With growing bitterness he retained this uneventful command for three years, the presence of his force dissuading the French from pursuing operations in the region. In 1801, his health broken by the heat and conditions in the Red Sea, he died on ''Leopard'' at Mocha on the Arabian Peninsula. In life, Blankett was noted for both his linguistic prowess and his bad temper.〔
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