Wreck, Scandal & Mutiny on HMS Wager
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The War on the Island
The story is from the warring perspectives of three main figures on the wager. One was Captain Chief, one was the Gunner John Bokely and then John Byron who would later go on to become the grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. They set off in a castaway boat that they reconstruct kind of very ingeniously build but they are packed so tightly in this boat they could barely move. The men had descended into a real life lord of the flies with murder and mutiny and mayhem.
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