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Mutiny on the Culloden

Inspired by the French Revolution, this mutiny used revolutionary language, but the ringleaders paid with their lives.

James Davey

Mutiny on the Culloden On the evening of 4 December 1794, sailors on board the naval ship Culloden executed one of the most audacious mutinies of the age of sail. At Spithead, near Portsmouth, as midnight approached, around 50 sailors disarmed the vessel’s marines and...

James Davey on Tempest

Our editor met with the author of a new book on the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars.

James Davey

James Davey, we’re very used to seeing the Royal Navy as all powerful post-Trafalgar and 1805, but was this the case during the period in which you write about, the 1790s? In short, no! The Navy of the 1790s was wracked by a series of crises and it certainly did not...