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Thomas Blood

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Irish-born Colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels

Lived 1618 to 1680 · aged 62
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Thomas Allen Blood was an Anglo-Irish army officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671.

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c. 1793 illustration of Blood and his accomplices attempting to steal the regaliac. 1793 illustration of Blood and his accomplices attempting to steal the regaliaColonel Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels (Henry Perronet Briggs, 1824)Colonel Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels (Henry Perronet Briggs, 1824)

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Thomas Allen Blood was an Anglo-Irish army officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. Described in an American source as a "noted bravo and desperado," he was also known for his attempt to kidnap and, later, to kill his enemy, the 1st Duke of Ormond.

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Lived 1618 to 1680 · aged 62
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