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Peter Burke
28 pages (2009/1866); 194KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00523
DESCRIPTION
On April 28, 1789 a mutiny took place on a Royal Navy ship named the Bounty. A number of books, poems, movies, films and songs have since popularized that mutiny, and the mutineers.
This account looks at that ship rebellion from the perspective of the British navy, concluding that, in the end: “The mutiny of the Bounty is an event that should be a solemn warning to every seaman in the navy, showing, as it does, the magic power of discipline, and the misery of insubordination ...”