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The Breeze at Spithead Becomes The Gale at The Nore
If you were an observer at the gala celebrating the end to the Spithead mutiny you might have noticed this scene: At about eight the high and mighty were ready, and all made for the Ally Port once...
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Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
One of the crucial figures in British naval history at the time of the mutinies at Spithead and The Nore was Admiral Adam Duncan. Often history has a way of inserting the right man at the right place...
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The Gale At The Nore. Part 1. Prelude.
Like the mutiny at Spithead, the Nore mutiny was born of anger and frustration on the part of the common sailor. There were significant differences in the make up of the fleets at those two locations....
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The Gale at the Nore. Richard Parker. Part 2.
Personnel is policy. This is just as true in mutiny as it is in business and government. Where the Spithead Mutiny was led by experienced and accomplished seamen, the mutiny at The Nore was led by an...
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The Gale at The Nore. Part 3. Quiescence.
From the beginning the mutiny at The Nore had a more pronounced element of mob rule than did the mutiny at Spithead. As we mentioned in the first installment on The Nore mutiny, the mutineers took...
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The Gale at The Nore. Part 5. Climax.
HMS Clyde escapes from the mutinous fleet at The Nore When we last visited the mutiny at The Nore, the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty had departed their conference with the mutineers disappointed....
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The Gale at The Nore. Part 6. Mutiny FAIL.
The arrival of part of Admiral Duncan’s Yarmouth based fleet at The Nore gave a new boost the morale of the mutineers which had been battered by the change of attitude of the people of Sheerness...
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The Gale at the Nore. Part 7. Retribution.
With Richard Parker’s surrender and imprisonment, the inevitable retribution began. The British Navy had a tradition of leniency towards certain kinds of mutiny but by the same token ruthlessly...
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