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Courts-martial and courts of inquiry Cromwell, Samuel -1842 Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell 1803-1848 New York (State) New York Small, Elijah -1842 Somers (Brig : 1842-1846) Spencer, Philip 1824-1842 Trials Trials (Mutiny) United States. Navy. Court-martial (Mackenzie : 1843)

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Sailing the graveyard sea : the deathly voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's only mutiny, and the trial that gripped the nation

Snow, Richard

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Summary: "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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