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the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya , Uganda and Tanganyika ?
in April 1919, the crew of the French Courbet -class battleship Jean Bart (pictured) mutinied while helping defend Sevastopol from the advancing Bolsheviks ?
the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history ?
the crew of the Russian battleship Gangut staged a minor mutiny in 1915 when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni ?
when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning , his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
the engines of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Ekaterina II (pictured) were disabled when the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutinied in June 1905 to prevent her from joining Potemkin ?
despite his father calling him 'the flower of my fleet', Fleetwood Pellew (pictured) still managed to provoke two mutinies and spent thirty years on half-pay ?
after the Tang Dynasty general Li Jiang died in a mutiny , his successor Wen Zao slaughtered the mutineers and offered their heads to Li Jiang as a sacrifice?
Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer , an event the press described as a mutiny ?
Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny , only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964 , seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines ?
after Captain Hugh Pigot was killed in a mutiny , Captain Edward Hamilton led the force (pictured) that recaptured his ship HMS Hermione ?
after being part of the Communist Party of Burma for 20 years, Pheung Kya-shin mutinied against the party and established his own army?
Captain John Maitland's decisive quashing of an attempted mutiny was termed 'Doctor Maitland's recipe' by Admiral John Jervis ?
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