Just before sunrise on April 28, 1789, in the far reaches of the South Pacific, Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and three other men, armed with cutlasses, bayonets and a musket, apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen officers and crewmen in a small boat. This mutiny on board His Majesty's armed transport Bounty impelled every man on a fateful course-- Bligh and his loyalists on a historic boat voyage, Christian and his followers on their restless exile. Bligh himself returned to Britain as a hero, and ten of the Bounty's crew were eventually captured in Tahiti and brought back to England in irons to face their day in court.

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