James Heane (English general)

For the Australian general, see James Heane.

James Heane (died 1655) was a general serving in the Army of the Commonwealth of England. He was Governor of Jersey (1651–1654). Heane was an ardent Puritan.

On 20 September 1651, the English Council of State appointed Colonel James Heane military commander of a force of 2,200 men commissioned with the task of taking Jersey. The General-at-Sea, Robert Blake, was appointed naval commander with a fleet of twelve warships and a further seventy ancillary ships.[1]

Heane commanded one of the regiments under command of General Robert Venables which took part in the Western Design.[2]: 117 

Heane was killed during the Siege of Santo Domingo in April 1655.

  1. ^ Plant, David. "Jersey & the Channel Isles, 1651". bcw-project.org. BCW Project. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  2. ^ Venables, Robert (1900). Firth, Charles Harding (ed.). The narrative of General Venables, with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655;. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.