"Which 19th century American author went to sea aged 17 in a whaler, deserted twice, was captured by cannibals and joined a man of war before writing novels such as ""White Jacket"" and ""Billy Budd""?"
White-Jacket of 19th century naval discipline" in his "novelized memoir" "White-Jacket". The man whom Melville based the fictional Commodore on, Thomas ap Catesby Jones, a former commander of the USS "United States" (1797), was brought up on a court-martial in 1850 and found guilty on three counts mostly related to "oppression" of junior officers. Jones was relieved of command for two and a half years. In 1853, President Millard Fillmore reinstated him and in 1858, the United States Congress restored his pay. White-Jacket White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published
Blue Jacket and make the final attempts to reclaim Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country. In 1877, decades after Blue Jacket's death, a story was published which claimed that Blue Jacket had actually been a white man named Marmaduke Van Swearingen, who had been captured and adopted by Shawnees in the 1770s, around the time of the American Revolutionary War. This story was popularized in historical novels written by Allan W. Eckert in the late 1960s. An outdoor drama based on the Van Swearingen story, "Blue Jacket, White Shawnee War Chief", was performed in Xenia, Ohio, beginning in 1981. Performances of the