James Heane (died 1655) was a general serving in the Army of the
Commonwealth of England
The Commonwealth of England was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when Kingdom of England, England and Wales, later along with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland and Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, were governed as a republi ...
. He was
Governor of Jersey
Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gover ...
(1651–1654). Heane was an ardent
Puritan
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should b ...
.
On 20 September 1651, the
English Council of State
The English Council of State, later also known as the Protector's Privy Council, was first appointed by the Rump Parliament on 14 February 1649 after the execution of King Charles I.
Charles's execution on 30 January was delayed for several ho ...
appointed Colonel James Heane military commander of a force of 2,200 men commissioned with the task of taking
Jersey
Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
. The
General-at-Sea,
Robert Blake, was appointed naval commander with a fleet of twelve warships and a further seventy ancillary ships.
Heane commanded one of the regiments under command of General
Robert Venables
Robert Venables (c. 1613 – 10 December 1687) was an English soldier from Cheshire, who fought for Parliament in the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and later served under the Commonwealth of England.
When the Anglo-Spanish War bega ...
which took part in the
Western Design
The Western Design was an English expedition against the Spanish West Indies during the 1654 to 1660 Anglo-Spanish War.
Part of an ambitious plan by Oliver Cromwell to end Spanish dominance in the Americas, the force was short of supplies an ...
.
Heane was killed during the
Siege of Santo Domingo in April 1655.
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New Model Army generals
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1655 deaths
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)