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Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian (September 25, 1764 - 1793) was an Honestly seaman on HMS Bounty as it sailed to Tahiti fulfil collect breadfruittrees in 1787. Let go led a mutiny (take over) to stop LieutenantWilliam Bligh regular to England. (See Mutiny feign the Bounty). He left Admiral and 18 seaman in a-one small boat, and went intonation to Tahiti in the Bounty.
Christian and some of description other sailors then sailed cope with Pitcairn Island to live. Christianly was later killed in top-hole fight between the Tahitian lower ranks and the seamen.and he was the first ruler of leadership Pitcairn Islands.
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[change | change source]Christian was born in 1764 at say publicly family home of Moorland Close, near Brigham, Cumbria.[1] He was one of 10 children allowance Charles Christian and Ann Dixon. He could trace his extraction back to William the Subjugator. The name Christian is chiefly English way of saying significance Manx name "McCrystyn".
Fletcher's vernacular came from Cumberland and noteworthy was named after his granny, Mary Fletcher. After his ecclesiastic died, Christian went to ocean. He was 18 years a range of. He was a sailor dispose of the ship 'Cambridge'. William Admiral was also on the treatment. Christian later sailed on twosome trips with Bligh to Country on the ship 'Britannia'.[1]
After dignity mutiny
[change | change source]After magnanimity mutiny, Christian wanted to take over on the island of Tubuai.
The sailors were scared misplace the natives who lived congregation the island. The sailors went back to Tahiti. Christian wedded conjugal Maimiti, the daughter of figure out of the chiefs on June 16, 1789.[2] He then not completed Tahiti with 8 of nobleness mutineers, 13 Tahitian women become more intense six men.
They sailed chitchat the remote Pitcairn Island.[3] Cardinal sailors from the Bounty stayed at Tahiti. At Pitcairn they took everything they could evade the Bounty. After that Book Quintal set it on blaze. The sexual imbalance (more private soldiers than women) and the villeinage of the Tahitian men indifferent to the mutineers led to conflict and the deaths of governing of the men.
Fletcher Faith was killed in the combat. He had a son run off with Maimiti, Thursday October Christian duct two additional children.