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The mutiny also spread to Kolkata and later Dhaka, the former Mughal capital of Bengal. Residents in the city's Lalbagh area were kept awake at night by the rebellion. [ 147 ] Sepoys joined hands with the common populace in Jalpaiguri to take control of the city's cantonment . [ 145 ]
The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most famous instances of mutiny which took place at sea. Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew, or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or remove superiors or their orders. The term is commonly used for insubordination by members of the military against an ...
After spotting a round-robin, a sign of mutiny, Charlotte warns Jaggery, who heads off the rebellion and kills its ringleader Cranick. Charlotte is distressed when Captain Jaggery and first mate Mr. Hollybrass whip Zachariah for 50 lashes. Charlotte tries to protect Zachariah by grabbing the whip, but accidentally hits the captain's face.
The Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century.
A musical Mutiny! played at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End for sixteen months from 1985. [224] It was co-written by David Essex based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty and starred Essex as Christian. Morecambe and Wise produced a spoof "play what Ernie wrote" called Monty on the Bonty, starring Arthur Lowe as Bligh. [225]
In November 1975, in response to rampant corruption and stagnation in the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, he led a mutiny on the Soviet anti-submarine frigate Storozhevoy (Russian: Сторожевой, tr. Storoževoj, meaning "Sentry") in an attempt to start a Leninist political revolution. His mutiny failed and he was executed for ...
The position covered some 60 acres (240,000 m 2) of ground, and the garrison (855 British officers and soldiers, 712 Indians, 153 civilian volunteers, with 1,280 non-combatants, including hundreds of women and children) was too small to defend it effectively against a properly prepared and supported attack. Also, the Residency lay in the midst ...
The mutiny was unsuccessful, and government soldiers executed many of the participants and began to crack down on a burgeoning Philippines nationalist movement. Many scholars believed that the Cavite mutiny was the beginning of Filipino nationalism that would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution. [3]