🎧 Mutiny on the Spanish Main
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 21m
Angus Konstam joined me on the podcast to tell the dramatic story of HMS Hermione. In 1797, the British frigate was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history.
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