Download or read book The Naval Mutinies of 1797 (Classic Reprint) written by Conrad Gill and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Naval Mutinies of 1797 The first four books of this volume give an account of the Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore; the fifth and sixth books deal with the causes of the unrest. The information is largely drawn from original letters of the officers and seamen concerned in the risings and from other contemporary documents. These letters provide most of the material needed for a consecutive account of the Mutinies, but published works have been used in matters of detail to help the sequence of the story. Cunninghams book on the Nore Mutiny, which can almost be classed as contemporary, has been particularly useful as a supplement to Buckner's rather jejune dispatches. A list of authorities, with a short appreciation of their value, is given below, in Appendix C; and throughout the book reference is made, in footnotes, to the sources of information. The footnotes also contain some discussions on points of fact or opinion or chronology, and some illustrative matter; but I have tried to include in the text everything that is essential to the main argument, so that any readers who may wish to follow the general course of the Mutinies, but do not desire a critical study of details, will be able to neglect the notes without losing anything that is important for their purpose. In this volume I have not dealt with the scattered Mutinies which preceded the risings of 1797, nor with the mutiny at Plymouth, or the later troubles in the Mediterranean fleet, in the West Indies and at the Cape of Good Hope. The earlier risings were only slight outbreaks of discontent; the later were only echoes of the disturbances in the Channel and North Sea fleets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.