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Captain Bligh: A “Historical Villain Who Was Actually An Okay Guy”

June 25, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

When Cracked.com published a list of 6 Historical Villains Who Were Actually OK Guys, Captain Bligh came in at #2. I’m sharing because I love Cracked and the entry about him is both informative and hilarious. Also full […]

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The Bounty Adventure Pt. 6/6: Home Again

June 24, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Text from Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos. Bligh and his seventeen loyalists were safely inside Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Reading Bligh’s account of the open-boat voyage […]

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The Bounty Adventure 5/6: Loyalists Adrift

June 10, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Text from Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos. During the events of the mutiny on the Bounty, three boats were launched: first the jolly boat which was […]

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The Bounty Adventure Pt. 4/6: Mutiny and Pitcairn

May 16, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Text from Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos. On the night between April 17 and April 28 Christian had probably had very little sleep. There are some […]

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The Bounty Adventure Pt. 3/6: Discipline Undermined

May 4, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Text from Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos. The Bounty was now (May 1788) sailing eastward from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope. For almost the whole […]

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The Bounty Adventure Pt. 2/6: England to the Cape of Good Hope

April 28, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Text from Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos. After long delays, first because of the Admiralty’s tardiness in sending Bligh his sailing orders and then because of […]

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The Bounty Adventure Pt. 1/6: HMS Bounty

April 27, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

Rear Admiral William Bligh was a notorious figure well-known (by reputation) to Captain Jack Aubrey. Jack himself praises the man’s navigational skills in our beloved series, and laments his bad luck in being the victim […]

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The Life of Rear Admiral William Bligh

April 26, 2010 The Dear Knows 0

The Bligh family were resident in the parish of St. Tudy from at least 1680 and a John Bligh (or Blygh) of Bodmin was a commissioner for the suppression of monasteries in the reign of […]

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