Donland - Betrayal and Mutiny

<p>The year is 1805 and the high seas are a battleground not just for empires but for the financial solvency of nations. HMS Wessex a sleek 32-gun frigate is ordered southwest the frigate is bound directly for the newly created Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in South America a volatile region centering on the burgeoning port of Buenos Aires.</p><p></p><p>News of a massive new gold strike and word has reached London. This gold is the lifeblood of global conflict; specifically the staggering expenditures and desperate needs of the French Revolution-now the Napoleonic War machine-demand immediate and untraceable funding.</p><p></p><p>First Lieutenant Maddox suffered a severe injury and is sent home. His replacement is Lieutenant Brown. Shady possessing an unnervingly cold demeanor. He is an opportunist promoted beyond his station.</p><p></p><p>Donland a man of robust honor and straightforward naval discipline dismissed incidents as typical shakedown issues unable to comprehend the sophisticated conspiracy festering below decks.</p><p></p><p>The full shocking betrayal occurred just as Wessex sighted the low muddy coast of the Río de la Plata. Lieutenant Brown revealed his true colors striking with brutal efficiency. He had covertly recruited a core group of dissatisfied ratings and petty officers-men seduced by the promise of immediate untraceable wealth-and seized control of the frigate in the dark hours before dawn. Captain Donland was overpowered in his own cabin shocked to realize the true depth of Brown's treachery.</p><p></p><p>Donland becomes isolated from his few remaining trustworthy Marines. In a dark alleyway near the customs house a knife plunged deep into his side. Brown watched from a distance ensuring the attack looked like a common street robbery gone wrong. </p><p></p><p>Stripped of his command betrayed by his nation's uniform and hunted by a mutineer commanding his own ship Donland began to plot his revenge and the desperate necessary recapture of the Wessex before Brown could deliver the gold into the waiting hands of the French agents.</p><p></p>