Cyprus mutiny the mutiny in which the mutineers are depicted as birds. Cyprus mutiny The "Cyprus" mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, "Cyprus" visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so. The mutineers were eventually captured. Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock,
George T. Davis candidate for renomination in 1852 and instead resumed the practice of law in Taunton and Greenfield, Massachusetts. He did not give up on politics however and served as member of the State House of Representatives in 1861. Davis moved to Portland, Maine, where he died June 17, 1877. He was interred in Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Massachusetts. George T. Davis George Thomas Davis (January 12, 1810 – June 17, 1877) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. George Davis was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University and graduated in 1829, later studying law at Cambridge and Greenfield, Massachusetts. Davis