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Revised 8/5/2008

Timeline of Bounty Mutiny Story

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Breadfruit Mission
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Instructions
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Bethia Purhased
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Bethia becomes Bounty
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Bligh appointed
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Masts cut
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To Spithead
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Arrive Spithead
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Final orders
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Pay & Delay
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Bounty voyage to Tahiti
 
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Bounty departs Spithead
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Bounty at Tenerife
 
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Three watches
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Bounty crosses line
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Bligh promotes Christian
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Quintal punished
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Attempt to round Cape
 
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Westernmost Reach
 
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At Cape of Good Hope
 
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Williams punished
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At Adventure Bay
 
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James Valentine dies
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At Tahiti
 
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Arrive Tahiti
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Matavai Bay
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Smith punished
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Thompson punished
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Huggan dies
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Lamb punished
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Three men desert
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Hayward confined in irons
 
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Sails found rotted
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Deserters apprehended
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Deserters punished
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Deserters punished
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Martin punished
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Depart Tahiti
 
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At Annamooka
 
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Cocoanuts
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Voyage of launch
 
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At Coupang
 
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Mercury passes Tubuai
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John Brown landed at Tahiti
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To Batavia
 
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Bligh buys Resource
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Bligh sells Resource
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John Norton killed
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David Nelson dies
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Bligh to Good Hope
 
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Bligh to England
 
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Bligh's crew
 
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Thomas Hall dies
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Peter Linkletter dies
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William Elphinstone dies
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Robert Lamb dies
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Thomas Ledward
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Lamb beaten
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The Wandering Bounty
 
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Mutineers split up
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Pitcairn
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Tubuai I
 
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At Tahiti
 
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Tubuai II
 
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Start building fort
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Trouble with natives
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Battle with natives
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Bounty burned
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Mutineers on Tahiti
 
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Building Resolution
 
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Churchill killed
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Thompson killed
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Resolution's first sail
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Pandora sails
 
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Pandora's Box
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At Tahiti
 
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Search
 
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Resolution sails
 
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Sails alone
 
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Pandora loses Resolution
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Pandora loses jolly boat
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To reef
 
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Search abandoned
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Pandora wrecked
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Boats
 
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Hillbrant drowns
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Sumner drowns
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Skinner drowns
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Stewart drowns
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At Surabaya
 
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Reunited
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First boats reach Timor
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Other boats reach Timor
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Rembang
 
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At Batavia
 
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Resolution to Batavia
 
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A gift
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From Batavia to Good Hope
 
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Gorgon to England
 
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Anchor at Spithead
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Imprisoned aboard Hector
 
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Court-Martial
 
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Verdict
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King's Warrant
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Burkett hanged
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Ellison hanged
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Millward hanged
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Christian killed
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Brown killed
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Mills killed
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Martin killed
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Williams killed
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Bligh Court-Martial
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