Butterworth Stavely
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Butterworth Stavely
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Butterworth Stavely is a fictional character in Mark Twain's 1879 story "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn". He is an American adventurer and filibuster who instigates a coup d'état on the Pitcairn Islands and has himself crowned "Emperor Butterworth I". Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Royal Navy officer Algernon de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition", which was probably referring to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 187
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Fictional character
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterworth_Stavely
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2023-01-13T05:29:55Z
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