In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

" Chapter X Sir Thomas Staines " pp. 366-367 In November 2009 a logbook kept by midshipman J. B. Hoodthorp of HMS Briton detailing the first contact with the mutineers was auctioned for over £ 40, 000 by Cheffin's Auction House in Cambridge.

Although the first French claims date from 1638, when François Cauche and Salomon Goubert visited in June 1638, the island was officially claimed by Jacques Pronis of France in 1642, when he deported a dozen French mutineers to the island from Madagascar.

After only two months since their first arrival on Tubuai the mutineers left for good.

* Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr. ( 1790 – 1861 )— professor at Yale Divinity School who first spoke with the mutineers of the Amistad.

It was first inhabited by French mutineers who arrived on the island between 1646 and 1669.

Ducie was first discovered in 1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, who named it Luna Puesta, and rediscovered by Edward Edwards, captain of, who was sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers of.

In 1789, William Bligh is said to have been the first European to visit the atoll while looking for the Bounty mutineers.

The first order of business was now to bring about peace with the rebel provinces, to make a common front against the marauding mutineers.

In 1832 he arrived on Pitcairn Island which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from the HMS Bounty and some Tahitians who joined them.

European contacts with the Pericú began in the 1530s, first when Fortún Ximénez and mutineers from an expedition sent out by Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of central Mexico, reached La Paz, followed shortly afterwards by an expedition under Cortés himself ( Mathes 1973 ).

When food and water supplies became scarce, the mutineers began to kill their fellow survivors, at first covertly, then more and more openly.

The Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior has stated that the mutineers were ex-UN soldiers recently returned from Liberia who were angry about delays in being paid.

The camp was purged of mutineers by the Praetorians and the legions returned to the winter barracks.

Fighting subsequently broke out between the radical leaders and the moderate majority of seamen and the ships gradually deserted Parker and returned to their anchorages, so that by 12 June only two ships still flew the red flag of the mutineers.

In the ensuing years of the decade he served in on the West Indies station, in on the Pacific station, in as that vessel pursued mutineers of the whaler Globe, then returned to United States.

The descendants of the mutineers had chosen to migrate back to Tahiti following the death of the last mutineer, John Adams, but had recently returned.

By the end of the year, the barbarians had been driven back to their homelands ; the mutineers had been executed ; Hadrian's Wall was retaken ; and order returned to the diocese.

In response, the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard fired on the mutineers who returned to Teteron Barracks, abandoning their foray into Port of Spain.

For a whole week the mutineers were supreme, and it was only by the greatest exertions of the old Lord Howe that order was then restored and the men returned to duty.

With the help of former Bounty midshipman Thomas Hayward-a Bligh loyalist recently returned to England from the South Pacific-Edwards succeeded in finding fourteen mutineers, but the Pandora was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on 29 August 1791 during the journey home from the South Pacific.

The mutineers then variously settled on Pitcairn Island or in Tahiti and burned the Bounty off Pitcairn Island, to avoid detection and to prevent desertion.

The British government dispatched HMS Pandora to capture the mutineers, and Pandora reached Tahiti on 23 March 1791.

It was originally to be released as a two-part film, one named The Lawbreakers that dealt with the voyage out to Tahiti and the subsequent mutiny, and the second named The Long Arm that studied the journey of the mutineers after the mutiny, as well as the admiralty's response in sending out the frigate HMS Pandora and her famous box in which some of the mutineers were imprisoned.

" After only ten days on the island, the mutineers sailed for Tahiti to get women and livestock in which they were only nominally successful.

Following the Mutiny on the Bounty, the British mutineers stopped at Tahiti and took 18 Polynesian people, mostly women, to the remote island of Pitcairn and settled there with them.

Although they succeeded in finding some of the mutineers on Tahiti, and Hayward evidently performed well, it was an unfortunate voyage, ending with Pandora shipwrecked, and for the second time in as many years Hayward found himself without a ship, in an open boat making for safety.

Hayward is frequently confused with Peter Heywood-a fellow Bounty midshipman-because of the their similar sounding names ; for instance, in the 1984 de Laurentiis The Bounty film, Hayward was characterized as one of the mutineers who decided to stay at Tahiti.

Ferdinand Magellan had called here half a century earlier, where he put to death some mutineers.

Nine mutineers continued their flight from the law and eventually settled Pitcairn Island, where all but one died before their fate became known to the outside world.

Most crew members lead a simple illiterate life of agriculture, seldom or never venturing to the " upper decks " where the " muties " ( an abbreviation of " mutants " or " mutineers ") dwell.

While the bulk of the Forest Rangers went off to the East Cape von Tempsky and the other mutineers were allowed to return to Wanganui where he took part in McDonnell's and Chute's later Taranaki campaigns against the Hau Hau.

With only 13 crewmen remaining onboard besides themselves, the mutineers sailed into Cambodian waters, where they assumed they would be welcomed as heroes.

They had moved there from Pitcairn Island, where their ancestors had famously been marooned by the mutineers who had taken control of the Bounty.

Kelsey concludes that Drake wanted to set a stern example against indiscipline in the crew ; his choice to hold Doughty's trial on the same spot where Ferdinand Magellan had executed his mutineers was hardly coincidental.

Next, they proceed to Government House where a family surnamed either Quintal, Evans, McCoy, Buffett, Adams, Nobbs, Christian or Young ( being descendants of the mutineers of that ilk ) is awarded the title of ' Family of the Year '.

In presence of the scaffold erected by the ferocious mutineers for all the vanquished generals, and in a camp where no suspected person dared to assume the precarious office of leader, when pressed upon him, he accepted the baton provisionally, and in the meantime the representatives who were sent from Paris to manage affairs ( and act as spies upon the army ), reported

Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills had taken the lives of most of the mutineers and Tahitian men.

( It also helped that in his talks with the mutineers, Howe saw the justice in their demands, and negotiated a settlement that satisfied most of them.

The mutineers were denied food, and when Parker hoisted the signal for the ships to sail to France, all of the remaining ships refused to follow ; eventually, most ships slipped their anchors and deserted ( some under fire from the mutineers ), and the mutiny failed.

Young slept through most of this battle as well, and was protected by the Tahitian women, who largely supported the mutineers.

* The Pango mutiny occurred when mutineers systematically killed most camp administration members of a Umkhonto we Sizwe training camp in Angola