Billy Budd, Chapter 3: riassunto

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1. The Indomitable joins the Mediterranean fleet and undertakes fleet operations, scouting, and other assignments.
2. The narrator identifies the summer of 1797 as the setting and recalls the uprisings at Spithead and the Nore.
3. The Nore mutineers alter British flags, turning a sign of national loyalty into a declaration of revolt.
4. The narrator explains how national pride encourages historians to limit their accounts of the rebellion.
5. Government concessions calm Spithead, while loyal marines and returning crew members help suppress the larger Nore uprising.
6. The narrator presents the mutineers’ participation in victories under Nelson as an absolution.

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