Mutiny Act Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... 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 parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military...
Mutiny Act Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... 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 parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military discipline. The navy had been under statutory authority since 1661 and was less politically delicate since the fleet could hardly be used to threaten public liberties. In 1784 the Fox–North coalition toyed with the...
Mutiny Act (1689) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Act ( 1689 ) English legislation concerning the enforcement of military discipline, primarily over mutineers and deserters. The Declaration of Rights ( 1689 ) had declared illegal a standing army without parliamentary consent. To strengthen parliamentary control of the army, the 1689 Mutiny Act was enforced for one year only, theoretically giving Parliament the right of an annual review. In fact there were years ( 1689–1701 ) when it was not in force and both army and navy long retained their close connection with the sovereign. Only when the crown...
India and English Government Reference library
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khān
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...for actions of the Indians themselves. Who can say that the Government is to be blamed for having, after the Mutiny of 1857, taken away arms from the people of India and prohibited their possession without a license? It was a punishment to the Indians for the misdeeds they committed during the Mutiny of 1857. Every fair-minded person will admit the Indians had in their evil deeds gone so far that the Government was compelled to pass the Arms Act. . . . The well-being of the people of India, and especially of the Musalmans, lies in leading a quiet life under...
Revolution Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...was extensive from 1794 to 1796 and again from 1799 to 1801 [ see *famine ], and from 1795 there were riots as new regulations for registering for the militia were put into practice. When the first Scottish Militia Act ( 1797 ) was implemented, widespread protest flared up throughout Scotland. In 1797 there were *naval mutinies in Nore and Spithead, allegedly fuelled by London Corresponding Society literature, and there was an agreed policy of subversion of the army among some cells of the United Englishmen—the English counterpart to the United...
War Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...improvised, survivalist existence of the poor. There were occasions when the collective protest of the men resembled any crowd action of the time, as a conflict of popular beliefs and expectations against the demands of social superiors. Without the backing of the Mutiny Act, volunteer officers depended on their social authority and force of personality to impose military order. The volunteers never managed to span the yawning gulf in British society between the military and the civilian. Neither the army nor the militia drew more than a tiny...
Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon Reference library
Mordechai Cogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...639 does read like a sign that victorious Assyria had come upon bad times. Manasseh died in 642 bce , and his son and successor Amon (641–640) reigned just two years before being assassinated by his courtiers. There is no way of knowing just what prompted this mutiny, and equally strong cases can be made for either foreign or internal affairs. Judah did not lack for political tensions and intrigues. The uprising was soon put down by “the people of land,” that influential segment of the population of Judah, mostly the wealthy, who appeared in...
Invergordon mutiny (1931) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...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 cuts were slightly revised but foreign holders of sterling were alarmed; an Act suspending the gold standard was rushed through Parliament, but the value of the pound fell by more than a quarter. The mutiny ended and the ratings’ ringleaders were discharged from the...
mutiny Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... n. An offence under the Armed Forces Act 2006 committed by any member of HM forces who combines with one or more other members (whether or not civilians are also involved) to overthrow or resist lawful authority in those forces or any forces cooperating with them. If a civilian is involved, his conduct will be a matter for the ordinary criminal...
Mutinies Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
...could be punished by death ( see Death penalty ) and under the Defence Force Disciplinary Act 1982 ( see Law, Military ) the maximum penalty for mutiny is life imprisonment. The Australian armed forces have not experienced mutinies of the scale that afflicted the French Army in 1917 , when the troops of 54 divisions refused to obey orders, but Australian personnel have staged in excess of 40 mutinies, some involving over 100 personnel. Australian mutinies, however, have generally occurred in rear areas and been peaceful and short-lived. The most...
Great Mutiny Reference library
Alexander Chow
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...spread to further military mutinies and civilian rebellions in the northern Gangetic Plain and central India, before it was suppressed by British soldiers. The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act 1858, which liquidated the EIC and transferred colonial power to direct rule under the British crown. In the aftermath, mission churches and cathedrals in India memorialized the events, carving the names of British soldiers and families who died into metal plaques and marble stones. The great majority of British Anglicans and nonconformists saw...
Royal Titles Act Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...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 upset Victoria, who asked her private secretary in 1873 , ‘why have I never officially assumed this title?’ The change of prime minister in 1874 from Gladstone to Disraeli enabled the measure to go ahead. By the Royal Titles Act (39 & 40 Vic. c. 10) the queen became Empress of...
Royal Titles Act (1876) Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...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 upset Victoria, who asked her private secretary in 1873 , ‘why have I never officially assumed this title?’ The change of prime minister in 1874 from Gladstone to Disraeli enabled the measure to go ahead, despite objections that the title was un-English. By the Royal Titles Act (39 & 40 Vic. c. 10) the queen became Empress of India....
Mutiny Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...mutiny—the men had real grievances—turned into a seizure-of-power and secession mutiny. Two hardly known mutinies, with all the characteristics of work stoppages, are the 1809 mutiny on the British frigate Nereide off Madagascar and the 1750 mutiny on the Dutch East Indiaman Hartekamp at the roadstead on the Dutch island of Texel. The captain of Nereide had revealed himself as an extremely cruel man, and several crew members prepared a work stoppage. The captain immediately instructed his marines to arrest the leaders, which ended the mutiny. The...
Maryland Gazette, The Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...contributions were an allegory, “The Plain Dealer,” which took a conservative point of view regarding constitutional liberty, and a Defoe-like letter purporting to be by a South Carolina gentleman reporting a mutiny by mulattoes. The paper was revived by Jonas Green ( 1745–65 ), and then was suspended because of hostility toward the Stamp Act. In 1766 it was revived, and was continued by Green and his family until superseded by St. Mary's...
mutiny Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...to impede the performance of any duty in HM forces or any cooperating forces. 2. Mutiny in a prison , contrary Section 1 Prison Security Act 1992) is committed when two or more prisoners, on the premises of any prison, engage in conduct which is intended to further a common purpose of overthrowing lawful authority in that prison. The offence is aimed at behaviour intended to make a prison, or part of a prison,...
Laughton, Charles Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...in 1933 to act at the *Old Vic under *Guthrie , playing Angelo in Measure for Measure , Prospero, Macbeth, and Canon Chasuble in *Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest . From 1932 he spent most of his time in America creating the roles on film for which he became famous, including Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1940 ). In later life he collaborated with *Brecht on the first production in English of Galileo (Los Angeles, 1947 ), and his own production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial ...
East India Company Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...after the battle of Plassey in 1757 , and the defeat of the Maratha empire in 1818 gave it undisputed supremacy. Territorial conquest, however, brought about more direct parliamentary control through the Regulation Act of 1773 and the India Act of 1784 . It survived as a quasi‐department of the British state until the Indian mutiny of 1857 , whereafter it was abolished and its powers vested in a secretary of state for...
pirate ship or aircraft Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
...control to be used for the purpose of committing as one of the acts referred to in article 101 [acts of piracy]. The same applies if the ship or aircraft has been used to commit any such act, so long as it remains under the control of the persons guilty of that act.’ Warships, government ships, and government aircraft become pirate ships and aircraft if the crew ‘has mutinied and taken control’ of the vessel or craft: art....
Indian Mutiny Reference library
Lynne Macedo
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
...to recapture the city until 16 March 1858 . On 20 September 1857 Delhi was stormed by the British, but it was not until the following June that the Mutiny was finally ended with the decisive British victory at Gwalior. After Gwalior all mutineers and those suspected, often incorrectly, of aiding them were dealt the most severe penalties by the British authorities. The EIC was then abolished by an Act of Parliament and the government of India was transferred to the Crown. As a further precaution the Indian Army was reorganized, with the sepoys relegated...
