Author: RITCHIE, JOHN; Introduced by. Title: A Charge Of Mutiny. The Court Martial of Lieutenant Colonel George Johnston for deposing Governor William Bligh in the Rebellion of 26 January 1808.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxvii, 490; colour portrait frontispiece, 4 pages of b/w plates, appendix, errata, index; original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, a fine copy. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 1988. A contemporary account of the Rum Rebellion in New South Wales in 1808. This transcript of the trial of the man who led the mutiny was originally published in 1811 at Bligh's instigation, and provides sufficient information for each reader to form an independent opinion on the guilt or innocence of the participants.
Keywords: Australian Local Colonial History New South Wales William Bligh Mutiny Rum Rebellion litergation John Macarthur George Johnston
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