Australian military-political intrigue claimed its first victim on January 26, 1808 when the NSW Rum Corps arrested Governor William Bligh.
The colony’s fourth governor, naval Captain Bligh was no stranger to mutiny.
His transgression in this instance was to attempt to rein in the Rum Corps’ corrupt excesses, the officers having captured the fledgeling colony’s economy by establishing rum as a currency.
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