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1619-1682. English Royalist general and
admiral, born in Prague, son of the Elector
Palatine Frederick V (1596-1632) and James
I's daughter Elizabeth. Defeated by Cromwell
at Marston Moor and Naseby in the Civil War,
he commanded a privateering fleet 1649-52,
until routed by Admiral Robert Blake, and,
returning after the Restoration, was a
distinguished admiral in the Dutch Wars. He
founded the Hudson's Bay Company.