Mutiny Act
Before the Glorious Revolution, James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without ...
Invergordon mutiny
(1931)A mutiny by sailors of the British Atlantic Fleet at the naval port on Cromarty Firth, Scotland. Severe pay cuts imposed by the National government led the ratings to refuse to go on duty. The ...
offence against the state
Crimes that affect the security of the state as a whole. The main offences against the state are treason and misprision of treason, sedition (and incitement to mutiny), offences involving official ...
Royal Titles Act
1876.After the Indian mutiny in 1857, sovereignty in India was transferred to the crown and the governor‐general became a viceroy. The elevation of Wilhelm I to be Emperor (of Germany) seems to have ...
English East India Company
A chartered company of London merchants that gradually transformed trading privileges in Asia into a territorial empire centred on India. Chartered in 1600, the Company soon lost the Spice Islands ...
Lewis Tappan
(b. 23 May 1788; d. 21 June 1873), evangelical reformer and abolitionist.Lewis Tappan was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. His father, Benjamin, was a goldsmith and later owned the general ...
Lord William Bentinck
(1774–1839).Soldier and administrator. In 1803 he became governor of Madras but was recalled after being held responsible for the sepoy mutiny at Velore in July 1806. He subsequently saw action in ...
James W. C. Pennington
(1807–1870).African‐American abolitionist, teacher, Christian preacher, temperance worker, and peace activist. Pennington was born into slavery in Maryland, where he worked as a blacksmith. He ...
Cinna
Of patrician, but not recently distinguished, family, fought successfully in the Social War and, against the opposition of Sulla, became consul 87 bc. Trying to rescind Sulla's legislation as passed ...
Cornelius Cinna, Lucius
Of patrician family, fought successfully in the Social War and, against the opposition of Sulla, became consul 87 bc. Trying to rescind Sulla's legislation as passed by force, he was driven out of ...
Russian Civil War
(1918–21)A conflict fought in Russia between the anti-communist White Army supported by some Western powers, and the Red Army of the Soviets in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is ...
Roman legions
A division of the army in ancient Rome. Legions evolved from the citizen militia that equipped itself in times of crisis for defence of the state. During the Second Punic War Scipio Africanus ...
Billy Budd
Novelette by Melville, was written during the five years before his death and published in 1924. The much revised manuscript, left without definitive form, was reissued in a very careful edition in ...
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
(1793–1815).Following its defeat of the Prussians at Valmy in September 1792, revolutionary France announced war against the states of the ancien régime. In response Britain sent an army under the ...
Slave Resistance
The image of the docile slave quietly clinging to the chains of bondage is just that—an image. Slaves throughout the South found various ways to resist their captivity. Some forms ...
army
Long before the Norman Conquest, military obligation seems to have divided into two basic forms. One was an obligation for service by all adult males, established in English law as the militia by the ...
John Quincy Adams
(1767–1848)US Republican statesman, 6th President of the USA (1825–29). The eldest son of President John Adams, he was minister to Britain (1809–14). As Secretary of State (1817–24) he helped to ...
shipwrecks
Is a word with several connotations but here it means vessels that are of particular interest to those working in marine archaeology. Many shipwrecks within the Exclusive Economic Zone of coastal ...
Supreme Court
The highest court in the USA, established by Article 3 of the US Constitution. Its members are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Early in its history, under the ...
