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===19th century=== * [[HMS Dominica (1805)|HMS ''Dominica'']] - in May 1806, crew members mutinied, took over the ship and turned her over to the French. She was later recaptured by the British and the mutiny's ringleader hanged. * [[Vellore Mutiny]], outbreak against the [[British East India Company]] on 10 July 1806, by sepoys forming part of the garrison of a fortress and palace complex at Vellore (now in Tamil Nadu state, southern India). * The [[Froberg mutiny]] by the Froberg Regiment in [[Fort Ricasoli]], [[Malta Protectorate|Malta]] in 1807. The mutiny was suppressed and 30 men were executed. * The US whaler ''[[Globe (1815 whaleship)|Globe]]'' mutiny of 1824. Captain and several crewmen were brutally murdered by whaler Samuel Comstock of Nantucket. Comstock was then murdered on Mili, a remote but inhabited Pacific island that he intended to take over and make his own, by the ship's remaining survivors.<ref>https://archive.org/details/gpl_1793280/page/n11/mode/2up</ref> * [[Barrackpore Mutiny]], (2 November 1824), incident during the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824β26), generally regarded as a dress rehearsal for the Indian Mutiny of 1857 because of its similar combination of Indian grievances against the British. * [[St. Joseph Mutiny]] (1837): rebellion of forcibly conscripted African soldiers in the [[1st West India Regiment]] in [[British Trinidad]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/01440399108575034|first=Thomas|last=August|year=1991|title=Rebels with a cause: The St. Joseph Mutiny of 1837|journal=Slavery & Abolition|volume=12|issue=2|pages=73β91}}</ref> * ''[[La Amistad]]'', in 1839. A group of captured African [[slave]]s being transported in [[Cuba]] mutinied against the crew, killing the captain.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3080/ |title = Unidentified Young Man |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1839β1840 |access-date = 2013-07-28 }}</ref> * The brig [[USS Somers (1842)|USS ''Somers'']] had a mutiny plotted onboard on her first voyage in 1842. Three men were accused of conspiring to commit mutiny, and were hanged.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/memmott/2017/11/20/jim-memmott-high-seas-mutiny-canandaigua-connection/881514001/|title=Jim Memmott: A high-seas mutiny with a Canandaigua connection|newspaper=Democrat & Chronicle (USA Today)|location=Rochester|last=Memmott|first=Jim|date=November 20, 2017|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref> *''[[Lady Franklin (barque)|Lady Franklin]]'' (1854) seized by convicts * The [[Indian rebellion of 1857]] was a period of armed uprising in [[India]] against [[United Kingdom|British]] colonial power, and was popularly remembered in Britain as the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Mutiny. It is remembered in India as the First War of Independence. * The ''Sharon'', a Fairhaven whaleship, was subject to multiple mass desertions, mutinies and the murder and dismemberment of a cruel (and from the record, [[Psychopathy#Sociopathy|sociopathic]]) captain by four [[Polynesians]] who had been pressed into service on the ''Sharon''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Druett |first=Joan |date=2003 |title=In the Wake of Madness |publisher=Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill}}</ref> * In 1857 on the whaleship ''Junior'', Cyrus Plummer and several accomplices engineered a mutiny that resulted in the murder of Captain Archibald Mellen and Third Mate John Smith. The mutineers were captured and found guilty in the fall of 1858. Plummer was sentenced to be hanged and his accomplices received life sentences. The story made national and international news and Plummer was able to garner a stay of execution from President [[James Buchanan]] and was ultimately pardoned by [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. * The [[Cavite Mutiny]] of 1872 in the Philippines. * The [[Brazilian Naval Revolt]] was the occasion of two mutinies in 1893 and 1894.
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