![]() ![]() He, Byron and one other survived helped by friendly strangers though eventually they were held by the Spanish, and returned to England five years after leaving Portsmouth. During an appalling voyage Cheap faced new mutinies. He recalled that they “bound” his hands, and held him under guard.Ĭheap and 18 men, including Byron, eventually set sail in two small and hardly seaworthy boats. Then 62 men mutinied, abandoning Cheap and those loyal to him, and taking the best boats to sail, they hoped, to Brazil, without charts. He claimed that, having fallen and injured himself, he was drugged by the ship’s surgeon, and that orders he gave were disobeyed.įor some months on the island he prepared several open boats for a perilous voyage home, trying to keep order, including shooting a drunken midshipman – “I even proceeded to extremities”. They were so fatigued by the voyage that they could scarcely “do their duty”. Writing in 1744, while a prisoner, Cheap described events, from the beginning: “My ship’s company at that unhappy juncture were almost all sick, having not more than six or seven seamen, and three or four marines, that were able to keep the deck.” There were 140 survivors, many of whom later died from starvation, drowning, hypothermia and violent ends. Wager was driven on to rocks by hurricanes near an uninhabited island. Wager’s crew included midshipman John Byron, the poet’s grandfather, who later gave substantial evidence criticising Cheap’s captaincy, though he was not one of the mutineers. The convoy was so ill-equipped it included, despite the commander’s objections, 500 soldiers from the Corps of Invalids. In 1741 Britain and Spain were at war and Wager, a 160-man Admiralty vessel, captained by David Cheap, right, was in a small squadron dispatched to “annoy and distress” Spanish interests in the South Seas. We're on a roll into Week 4 and starting to get a real sense for where each team is at and where they are headed.The Wager was wrecked off the inhospitable coastline of what is now Chilean Patagonia, in 1741, an episode involving murder, starvation slavery, and almost unimaginable adversity for the survivors. ![]() Anyway, let's get to talking about the Spring Football league that could've only been originally brought to us by the minds behind the WWE. So, when the powers to be in professional sports decide to supply our hungry demand for more year-round action, it would be fundamentally and morally wrong of us to not take a head-first dive into Spring Football education so that we can continue to enter DFS contests and place anxiety-inducing bets on games that most of our friends and family probably won't even know are being played-and if you're still reading this paragraph, I am fully confident that you share my sentiment on that point. They might not be the #1.or #2 leagues.but damn it, we've congregated here because we love sports. Be sure to also read all our other weekly XFL fantasy football articles.Īlso, don't fret.I'll be back, right here, to talk about gambling on the USFL in April and if we ever start expanding into the realms of the European League of Football, Indoor Football League, Fan Controlled Football, and/or (I can only hope) the CPBL of Taiwan come baseball season–I'll be right here to discuss the full happenings across the board. I'll be here every week providing sports betting advice for XFL action, so join me here and let's get Xtreme. Sportsbooks are now available on that device in your pocket all over the world, and so this is going to be a Spring Football season like no other. ![]() The 2023 XFL season is officially upon us, and we are finally getting XFL and USFL action together for our viewing pleasure this Spring football season.
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