Browne Bushell
British naval officer
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| Intro | British naval officer | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Officer | |
| Work field | Military | |
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| Birth | 1609 | |
| Death | March 1651 (aged 42 years) |
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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.