Robert Hughes (Royal Navy officer, died 1729)
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Robert Hughes (Royal Navy officer, died 1729)
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Rear-Admiral Robert Hughes was a Royal Navy officer. Having joined the navy in the late seventeenth century, he served as a lieutenant in several ships of the line during the Nine Years' War before being promoted to captain in 1697. His first command was HMS Flamborough in which he captured several privateers off Dunkirk at the start of the War of the Spanish Succession, before taking command of HMS Winchester. Hughes commanded a squadron guarding the Straits of Gibraltar in 1703, and in the fo
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Royal Navy officer
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