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Bounty, The
     
Bounty, The also HMS Bounty
a British naval ship on which there was a famous mutiny (=when the ordinary sailors take control of a ship by force) in the Pacific Ocean in 1789. The sailors, led by an officer called Fletcher Christian, took power from Captain William Bligh, and made him leave in a small boat.
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