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Portrait of General Monck ,Duke of Albermarle #1150121

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Portrait of General  Monck ,Duke of Albermarle #1150121
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Portrait of General George Monck First Duke of Albermarle (1608-1670) by Circle of Samuel Cooper </em></td>
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Distinguished military commander, and the great promoter of the restoration of Charles II., was the son of Sir Thomas Monk, of Potheridge, near Torrington, in Devonshire, and was born in 1608. Being a younger son, he entered the army as a volunteer, served under his relation Sir Richard Grenville, in an expedition to Spain, and afterwards for some years in the Netherlands. On the breaking out of the war between Charles I. and the Scots in 1639, he obtained a colonel's commission, and attended the king in both his expeditions to the north. When the Irish rebellion began in 1641, his services were so important, that the Lords Justices appointed him governor of Dublin.

On his return to England he was sent to relieve Nantwich, was taken prisoner by the army of the parliament, and sent to the Tower, where he remained till 1646. The royal cause being ruined, he obtained his liberty on condition of taking a command in Ireland, and soon concluded a peace with the rebels, for which the parliament passed upon him a vote of censure. Cromwell, however, made him lieutenant general, and gave him the chief command in Scotland. Monk distinguished himself at the battle of Dunbar, and afterwards in the war with the Dutch, for his successes in which he received great honours.

He resumed his command in Scotland. But the Protector had strong suspicions of Monk's sincerity; and not long before his death wrote him a letter, to which he added this postscript 'There be that toll me that there is a ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:17th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Circle of Samuel Cooper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of General Monck ,Duke of Albermarle</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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