William Bligh lost his ship Bounty at the hands of ... English planters had long harbored the hope of cultivating those necessities of life fondly associated with Home, such as the potato and ...

William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in history. His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty, to such despair that they were forced ...

In December 1787, H. M. S. Bounty, a British armed transport commanded by a brutal martinet named William Bligh, set sail from Spithead, England, for Tahiti, from which it was to take breadfruit ...