Leggatt was the ship's first mate, and during a terrible storm he killed a mutinous sailor.
And he's straightforward about himself: he doesn't try to excuse or soften the impact of his crime (the murder of a mutinous sailor) when he tells the captain about it.
He tells the captain straightforwardly, "I've killed a man," without trying to soften the impact of the crime (though you can sympathize with a first mate who hits a mutinous sailor).
How Theriere was to accomplish the subjugation of the mutinous sailor he could not guess, nor did he care so long as it was done without risk to his own skin.
However, he was caught in becalmed winds for too long - the British were able to find him based on a tip from a mutinous sailor.
Among those few, mainly Portuguese, most were renegades, criminals banished from Portugal, shipwreck survivors, or mutinous sailors.
The mutinous sailors had no intention of being needlessly sacrificed in the last moment of the war.
The mutinous sailors had no intention of risking their lives near the end of the war, thinking it futile.
Two of the mutinous sailors were returned to the ship and the rest remained in New Orleans, pending extradition.
The previous titles, which had toned down the mutinous sailors' revolutionary rhetoric, were corrected so that they would now be an accurate translation of the original Russian titles in the film.