Mutiny

Julian Stockwin

 

 

Mutiny

 

 

_{CORONET BOOKS Hodder & Stoughton}

_{Copyright © 2003 by Julian Stockwin}

_{First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Hodder and Stoughton First published in paperback in 2004 by Hoddcr & Stoughton A division of Hodder Headline}

_{The right of Julian Stockwin to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.}

 

_{A Coronet paperback}

_{13579 10 8642}

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_{All characters in this publication arc fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.}

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_{ISBN 0 340 79480 1}

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_CockburnThe Articles of War, 1749

_{If any person in the fleet shall conceal any traitorous or mutinous practice or design, being convicted thereof by the sentence of a court martial, he shall suffer death ...}

 

_{(Article 20)}

 

 

Prologue

D’_{amme, but that's six o' them — an' they're thumpers, Sir Edward!' The massive telescope that the first lieutenant of HMS} Indefatigable _{held swayed in the hard gale, but the grey waste of winter sea made it easy to see the pallid white sails of line-of-battle ships, even at such a distance.}

_{Captain Pellew growled an indistinct acknowledgement. If it was the French finally emerging from Brest, it was the}