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British naval officer
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Male
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Birth:
1609
Death:
March 1651
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Biography
Browne Bushell (bap. 1609, d. 1651), was an English Civil War-era naval officer.He initially sided with the Roundheads. On the night of 15 August 1641 he led a small parliamentary force in a cutting out operation to capture the Henrietta Marie in Portsmouth harbour. In 1643 he switched to the royalist side. He was executed for piracy in March 1651.