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Thomas Blood (1618 – 24 August 1680) was an Anglo-Irish officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. [1] Described in an American source as a "noted bravo and desperado," [ 2 ] he was also known for his attempt to kidnap and, later, to kill, his enemy James ...
[5] [6] Other accounts state that, in the struggle between Blood and his captor, Martin Beckman, 'the great pearl and a fair diamond fell off, and were lost for awhile with some other smaller stones ; but the pearl was found by Catharine Maddox, a poor sweeping woman to one of the warders, and the diamond by a barber's apprentice ; and both ...
9 May – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. [4] He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
Colonel James Clinton Blood (1819–1894), first mayor of Lawrence, Kansas; Thomas Blood (1618–1680), Irish officer, self-styled colonel, and rogue in both England and Ireland. Noted for having tried to steal Britain's Crown Jewels. Colonel Blood, a 1934 film depicting the life of Thomas Blood, directed by W. P. Lipscomb
Henry Morgan's Panama expedition, also known as The Sack of Panama was a military expedition in which English privateers and French pirates commanded by Buccaneer Henry Morgan launched an attack with an army of 1,400 men with the purpose of capturing the rich Spanish city of Panama off the Pacific coast between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the later stage of the Anglo-Spanish War.
May 21 – Colonel Thomas Blood fails in an attempt to seize Dublin Castle in support of the claims of Cromwellian soldiers. [ 1 ] July 27 – the Parliament of England passes the second Navigation Act , restricting Irish trade with colonies and the cattle trade with England.
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Thomas Blood (1618—1680) was an adventurer who was rewarded with estates in Ireland for his support of Parliament. At the restoration of King Charles II , he was dispossessed. An Anglo-Irish officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671.