Mutiny in the Royal Navy at Spithead. (England)(April 15, 1797)

History Today | April 1, 1997 | Copyright

The outbreak in April 1797 of mutiny in Britain's Channel fleet based at Spithead, outside Portsmouth, triggered off a wave of disaffection in the Royal Navy that ranked as perhaps the most serious crisis of an `annus horribilis' for the British Government and William Pitt, engaged as they were in the middle of all-out war against Revolutionary France.

In the wake of indifferent fortune on land against the French republic -- attempts by British forces to succour Royalist counter-revolutionaries in Toulon and Brittany had been failures, as had an expedition to the ...

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