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Mutiny on the HMS Bounty: Bligh, Christian, Pitcairn, Norfolk - English
URL: http://www.lareau.org/bounty.html

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In the year 1787, Lieutenant William Bligh, a young British Naval Officer having most recently served as sailing master to Captain James Cook on his voyages to the South Pacific, was commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and the British Admiralty, to undertake a voyage in a small ship, HMS Bounty. The goal of the voyage was to obtain a large number of breadfruit plantings to be taken to the Caribbean where they would be transplanted to provide food for the slaves in those colonies.

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COLONIAL - William Bligh - English
URL: http://www.dinkumaussies.com/%2FCOLONIAL%2FWilliam%20Bligh.htm

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The crew of his ship Bounty mutinied in 1789 with the set adrift Bligh and loyal crew showing amazing navigational skills in steering and rowing a small boat some 3,000 miles to Batavia.

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