Fletcher Christian
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Fletcher Christian ( September 25, 1764 - 1793) was an English seaman on HMS Bounty when it sailed to Tahiti to collect breadfruit trees in 1787. He led a mutiny (take over) to stop Lieutenant William Bligh returning to England. (See Mutiny on the Bounty). He left Bligh and 18 seaman in a small boat, and went back to Tahiti in the Bounty. Christian and eight of the mutineers left Tahiti with 13 Tahitian women and six men, and sailed to Pitcairn Island[1]. Christian was later killed in a fight between the Tahitian men and the seamen.