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Britain's first general mutiny

Dan Damon looks back to 1797, when sailors anchored in ships at Spithead and the Nore mutinied over conditions and wages. The mutinies happened in the wake of the American and French revolutions.

(Photo: Sailor Richard Parker handing a list of terms to Vice-Admiral Charles Buckner during the Nore mutiny. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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