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Jan 13, 2024 · The story of the Bounty mutineers and their settlement on Pitcairn Island is a remarkable tale of rebellion, survival, and adaptation. It highlights the complexities of human nature and the extraordinary lengths to which individuals will go to forge a new life, even in the most isolated corners of the world.
May 14, 2023 · #1. Inspired by the recent thread about WW I by @Speechless Motion, I'm starting a thread about mutinies and other resistance during World War I. Several of the topics I'm interested in (many others of course) include: 1. The French Army Mutinies. Probably my main interest - what led them to stop fighting etc at this time in particular?
Aug 1, 2014 · The 1914-18 British Army was notorious for its frequent appalling mistreatment of working class lower ranks by arrogant, out-of-touch upper class officers who often exploited ordinary soldiers as their personal servants and, under fire, as expendable military ordnance.
May 27, 2024 · The mutiny on the Bounty is a story that has captured the imagination of people around the world for over two centuries. It‘s a tale of adventure, betrayal, and the struggle for power in the face of adversity.
Hamlet is comparing his being held captive by the pirates to mutineers who have been arrested and are being held in irons. Since the punishment for mutiny was immediate hanging from the yardarm, this was not a good position in which to find yourself.
The definition of mutiny in the British Armed Services as set down in Mutiny Act of 1689 (and still valid as part of the 1913 Army Act), was astonishingly broad: 'Organised act of disobedience or defiance by two or more members of the armed services'.
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The mutiny on Hermione was different. Her captain, Hugh Pigot, was known as a flogging captain -- while not unknown in the Royal Navy, he used the lash to an extent that most captains did not, and flogged two of his men so heavily in one commission that they died after the punishment.
