NORE, MUTINY AT THE

NORE, MUTINY AT THE
   a mutiny in the fleet stationed at the Nore, an anchorage off Sheerness, in the Thames, which broke out on May 20, 1797, and was not suppressed till June 15, for which the ringleaders were tried and hanged.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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