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This is the extraordinary tale of the mutiny aboard the frigate HMS Hermione in 1797 (eight years following the mutiny on the Bounty) - the bloodiest mutiny ever before experienced by the Royal Navy, which resulted in the extradition from America, and the dangling by the British isles, of the martyred sailor Jonathan Robbins. This event plunged the two-decades-old American Republic into a constitutional crisis and powerfully contributed to the results of the US presidential election of 1800. It propelled to the fore the fundamental issue of political asylum and extradition, still being debated today - more than 200 years later.
