Ovi History

The St Joseph Mutiny occurred in June 1837 within the 1st West India Regiment of the British Army. The uprising began at the unit's barracks in St Joseph, Trinidad, which was then part of the British West Indies. The mutiny was led by recently arrived Africans who had been rescued from illegal slave ships by the Royal Navy and subsequently conscripted into the West India Regiments. Between 60 and 100 soldiers participated, seizing arms and ammunition, killing an enlisted soldier, and setting fi