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the pages that were a part of my blog were in this format, with a trailing slash at the end of the full url
http://www.example.com/blog/social-networking-cards/

this is what I added to my .htaccess so far:

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
redirect 301 /blog http://www.example.com/free-graphic.htm

Since the blog no longer exists, I left the blog/ folder and an index.php inside of it, but want to delete it altogether.
I was trying to re-direct all blog traffic to one single page
www.example.com/free-graphic.htm

The snip I have above works fine for all traffic coming from the home page of my old blog to the page specified above, but when a request comes for a specific post page,
it appends part of that old post page onto the redirected url, like so:
www.example.com/free-graphic.htm/social-networking-cards/

Is there any way I can just get the /blog folder and old indexed posts to redirect to that one page if people arrive by an old indexed post url?
In other words, I hope to have any page requested from old /blog, end up on this specific page:
http://www.example.com/free-graphic.htm

I should mention that I am not very knowledgeable with .htaccess, just know enough to follow instructions.

I would greatly appreciate any advice given. Thanks!