Mutiny on the Bounty the Tahitians. Bligh was impatient to be away, but as Richard Hough observes in his account, he "failed to anticipate how his company would react to the severity and austerity of life at sea ... after five dissolute, hedonistic months at Tahiti". The work was done by 1 April 1789, and four days later, after an affectionate farewell from Tynah and his queen, "Bounty" left the harbour. In their "Bounty" histories, both Hough and Alexander maintain that the men were not at a stage close to mutiny, however sorry they were to leave Tahiti. The journal of James Morrison, the
Mutiny in the killing of one mutineer, the execution of another, and the marooning of others; on Henry Hudson's "Discovery" resulting in Hudson and others being set adrift in a boat; and the notorious mutiny on the "Bounty". Until 1689, mutiny was regulated in England by "Articles of War" instituted by the monarch and effective only in a period of war. In 1689, the first "Mutiny Act" was passed which passed the responsibility to enforce discipline within the military to Parliament. The "Mutiny Act", altered in 1803, and the "Articles of War" defined the nature and punishment of mutiny until the