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In this work, "American Sanctuary," Ekirch chronicles the details of the gruesome 1797 HMS Hermione mutiny and its causes and consequences, particularly as its reverberations came to affect the ...

in which he recalls the extradition of Jonathan Robbins to Britain for his involvement in a mutiny aboard the British ship the HMS Hermione in 1797. The decision to extradite the Connecticut ...

The Hermione set sail from Cape Nicholas ... Two years after the mutiny, in a daring night attack, six small boats from HMS Surprise, a British warship under the command of Captain Edward Hamilton ...

On the night of September 22, the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy erupted aboard the frigate HMS Hermione off the western coast of Puerto Rico. Stabbed repeatedly with cutlasses ...

Late in the evening of September 21st, 1797, as the frigate HMS Hermione was patrolling the waters of the Caribbean, her crew rose up in bloody mutiny. These were men pushed to their limits by a ...

Mr. Ekirch relates the HMS Hermione mutiny — bloodiest in the Royal Navy’s history — in bloodcurdling detail and with the snap of tomorrow’s front page. Telling it as a mustard seed story ...