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THE time is 1797. The armies of the French Revolution have swept over Europe, leaving Britain's eight million people to stand alone against populations totaling more than fifty million. On the Continent an enormous invasion force is massing; while in England the country is nearly bankrupt and popular discontent is so widespread that the monarchy itself is in danger and the possibility of a British Republic looms.
At the height of the crisis, the British fleet mutinies in protest against poor pay, impossible living conditions, short and inedible rations, brutality and impressment, leaving England completely vulnerable to her enemies. Over 50,000 men serving in 113 ships refuse orders, expel their officers and set up ship democracy in the longest and largest naval insurrection in history. Their revolt becomes both a symptom and a cause of the internal dissension that wracks their country and in The Great Mutiny, provides the focus for a panoramic view of Georgian England.
No one is better qualified to capture the flood and drama of England's most imperiled years than James Dugan, whose book The Great Iron Ship is considered to be one of the classics of historical reporting. His writing speaks for itself; his research has been prodigious. The archives of the British admiralty and ministries, neglected publications of English reformers, the newly accessible complete correspondence of George III, and the uncatalogued papers of Captain Sir John Thomas Duckworth were among the many sources consulted. A major discovery occurred when unique mutineer writings came to light with the sale of the Cumby Family's papers in 1963, including the log of H.M.S. Comet, the only firsthand record now known to have survived.