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Sep 25, 2013 · Poor living conditions and late pay compelled soldiers in Washington’s Army to mutiny in the final year of the American Revolution. Unruly Continentals. Mutiny is almost as old as the U.S. military itself.
- The Mutiny on the Bounty. The 1789 mutiny on the Bounty saw a rebellious crew hijack their ship and build their own island community. Commanded by William Bligh, HMS Bounty left England in December 1787 on a mission to collect breadfruit saplings in the South Pacific.
- The Potemkin Mutiny. Although it was initially sparked by a mundane argument over food, the Potemkin mutiny became one of the pivotal events in the 1905 Russian Revolution.
- The Hermione Mutiny. On the night of September 21, 1797, the Royal Navy vessel Hermione was trawling the Caribbean when the crew initiated the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history.
- Henry Hudson and the Discovery Mutiny. The British explorer Henry Hudson made four famous voyages to the United States and Canada, but his tireless efforts to locate the Northwest Passage ultimately provoked his crew to rebel against him.
Nov 5, 2009 · On October 28, 1918, sailors in the German High Seas Fleet refuse to obey an order from the German Admiralty to go to sea to launch one final attack on the British navy. Their defiance echoes the...
Nov 27, 2018 · Mutiny in time of war, he warned, was a crime punishable by death. Many of the black sailors were taken aback by Wright’s warning. Mutiny, most of them had assumed, only applied in cases where a crew attempted to seize control of a vessel; they had no such intention.
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'.
Oct 30, 2018 · In the five months following V-E Day (May 1945), over three million soldiers had come home, one million of them in December alone. And the War Department and other entities repeatedly announced ...
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Mutiny, any overt act of defiance or attack upon military authority by two or more persons subject to such authority. Mutiny should be distinguished from revolt or rebellion, which involve a more widespread defiance and which generally have a political objective.
