Mutiny on the Bounty
mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty
- For other uses, see Mutiny on the Bounty (disambiguation).
The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard HMAV Bounty on 28 April 1789, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, Lieutenant William Bligh.
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- ... the wreck of the Batavia provides the greatest dramatic tragedy in Australian history, beside which the Mutiny on the Bounty is an anaemic tale.
- Thomas Davies Mutch, in a private letter to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, 1947. Published in the Foreword to Drake-Brockman's 1963 Voyage to Discovery.
