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 Roscoe Davis George Roscoe Davis George Roscoe Davis was a Washington, DC lawyer. In the late 1800s, he moved from Maine to Washington, DC to attend classes at George Washington University where in 1894 he became a charter member of the Columbian University chapter of Theta Delta Chi. That same year, George R. Davis was awarded both the Staughton Prize for excellence in the Latin language and literature and the Elton Prize for excellence in the Greek language and literature. In 1895 he also won the Ruggles Prize for Excellence in Mathematics and was the sole recipient of a Bachelor of Arts