Mutiny on the Bounty could use to enforce their authority. "Bounty" had been acquired to transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti (then rendered "Otaheite"), a Polynesian island in the south Pacific, to the British colonies in the West Indies. The expedition was promoted by the Royal Society and organised by its president Sir Joseph Banks, who shared the view of Caribbean plantation owners that breadfruit might grow well there and provide cheap food for the slaves. "Bounty" was refitted under Banks' supervision at Deptford Dockyard on the River Thames. The great cabin, normally the ship's captain's quarters, was converted into a greenhouse for over a
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