Three African soldiers in the 1st West India Regiment – Daaga, Edward Coffin and Maurice Ogston – are executed for their role in the St. Joseph Mutiny in the British colony of Trinidad.
The St. Joseph Mutiny was a mutiny which occurred in June 1837 among the 1st West India Regiment of the British Army. It began at the unit's barracks in St. Joseph, Trinidad, then part of the British West Indies.
Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — St. Joseph Mutiny, West India Regiments, Daaga, History of Trinidad and Tobago (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.
