By most, if not all accounts, Bligh was a masterful seaman. Bligh was backstabbed by those he had appointed, and was acquitted repeatedly in multiple trials brought by pissants not worthy of shining his boots trying to discredit him.
Every time the history is re-examined, Bligh is viewed in more and more favorable light, much like I suspect Donald J. Trump will be decades and centuries from now.
‘Bligh was a masterful seaman.’
perhaps; if I’m not mistaken, the Bounty was his first captaincy, and this no doubt played upon his judgement...
‘Bligh was backstabbed by those he had appointed’
no; Bligh was waylaid by one commissioned officer, Fletcher Christian, and two or so midshipman...the other officers of Bligh’s contingent stuck with him, even on the longboat, a few dying from the exposure...
‘Bligh is viewed in more and more favorable light, much like I suspect Donald J. Trump will be decades and centuries from now.’
yes, if Bligh’s real life is held up to the simplistic portrayal of him by Charles Laughton (the better depiction of Bligh was by Trevor Howard in the otherwise ridiculous 1962 movie); controversy dogged him, just as it has Trump, by both duplicitous miscreants and those who thought they were in the right...