Richard Fortescue (died 1655) was an

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soldier he fought in the

English Civil War The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...

and the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60). He commanded a regiment at the Siege of Santo Domingo in April 1655. He participated in the

invasion of Jamaica The Invasion of Jamaica took place in May 1655, during the 1654 to 1660 Anglo-Spanish War, when an English expeditionary force captured Spanish Jamaica. It was part of an ambitious plan by Oliver Cromwell to acquire new colonies in the America ...

and when his commanding officer

Robert Venables Robert Venables (ca. 1613–1687), was an English soldier from Cheshire, who fought for Parliament in the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and captured Jamaica in 1655. When the Anglo-Spanish War began in 1654, he was made joint comm ...

left Jamaica for England in late July1655, he took over command of the Army in Jamaica. However he died three months later in October 1655. Firth C.H. (1901) " Fortescue, Richard", ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement''

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