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1947 Royal New Zealand Navy mutinies

After campaigning for three days and winning the right to backdated pay, the mutineers were offered a choice: return to duty and accept punishment, or be discharged.

Bangladesh Rifles revolt

Home Minister Sahara Khatun convinced some of the mutineers to give up their arms by assuring them that the Army would not go into the BDR headquarters.

Diana Souhami

Coconut Chaos is both an investigation into the lives on Pitcairn Island of the HMS Bounty mutineers and their descendants, and a memoir of the author’s journey to Pitcairn.

H.M.S. Defiant

Appealing to their patriotism, Crawford convinces Vizard and the other mutineers to sail for the main British fleet blockading Rochefort to warn them of the impending invasion.

James Mudie

Mudie responded by attacking and criticising several people: he charged Watt with serious misdemeanours, attacked Roger Therry for defending the mutineers at their trial and criticised Bourke for showing acts of leniency and what Mudie perceived to be favouritism towards convicts.

Karlal

During the British period at the time of mutiny in 1857, the Karlal tribe tried to revolt against the rule of the East India Company, however, the British were able to imprison the Karlal chief Sardar Hassan Ali Khan, and many mutineers of this tribe were hanged along with some Dund tribesmen (Mutiny Reports 1857 of Hazara District).

Max Cramer

In 2009, as an initiative arising from the Australia on the Map: 1606 - 2006 commemorations, marking the 400th anniversary of Australia's first recorded contact with the outside world, Cramer and the Batavia Coast Maritime Heritage Association erected an impressive statue in Geraldton of Wiebbe Hayes, heroic leader of opposition to the Batavia mutineers.

Milton Obote

Before they arrived, however, Obote sent his defence minister Felix Onama to negotiate with the mutineers.

Pitkern language

Following the Mutiny on the Bounty, the British mutineers stopped at Tahiti and took 18 Polynesian people, mostly women, to the remote island of Pitcairn and settled there with them.

Rafael de Izquierdo y Gutiérrez

He was the Governor-General during the 1872 Cavite mutiny which led to execution of 41 of the mutineers, including the Gomburza martyrs.

Raine Island

More than thirty shipwrecks can be found off the coast of the island including HMS HMS Pandora, a vessel that in 1791 was involved in the capture of a group of mutineers from HMS HMS Bounty.

Rotuman people

This can be attributed to the high ratio of Caucasians to Rotumans in the early days of exposure to white people, when Rotuma became a haven to mutineers and stow-aways who appreciated the beauty of the island and found prosperity as the trading advisers to local chiefs when dealing with Occidental ships.

Thomas Eyles

Roy and Lesley Adkins offer a third account, that twenty mutineers were tried, all were found guilty and eighteen were sentenced to death, the other two were to received one hundred and twenty lashes each.

Victor François de Montchenu

He was a captain in this corps during the Nancy Affair, finding himself beside André Désilles when the latter died by throwing himself in front of a cannon in a vain hope of stopping the battle between the mutineers and the troops of de Bouillé.

William Olpherts

He was with Brigadier James Neill when he defeated the mutineers at Benares on 4 June 1857, and accompanied Havelock during the Relief of Lucknow.

Wouter Loos

Forewarned by Wiebbe Hayes, leader of the defenders, that the mutineers intended to capture the Sardam, Pelsaert acted decisively and the mutiny was ended.


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