Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Bligh a 1685, ɗan ɗan siyasa na Irish, Thomas Bligh da matarsa Elizabeth née Napier. A lokacin aikinsa na dogon lokaci a rundunar sojojin Burtaniya, ya kai matsayin Laftanar Janar. A shekara ta 1745, a lokacin Yaƙin Nasara na Austriya, a matsayin Birgediya, ya ɗauki umurnin sojojin haɗin gwiwa a yakin Melle kuma ya jagoranci wani ɓangare na sojojin da aka ci nasara zuwa aminci. Ya yi yaƙi a Dettingen, Val, Fontneay, da Melle. Shi ne kuma kwamandan sojojin Birtaniya a Cherbourg. A shekara ta 1758 an nada shi ya zama kwamandan zuriya, yana da shekara saba'in da uku. Ya jagoranci nasarar farko a kan Cherbourg
a watan Satumba na 1758, kamawa da lalata garuruwan birni. Daga nan sai ya sake shiga jirgi kuma ya motsa tare da bakin teku zuwa St Malo. A can, da aka fuskanci yanayi mara kyau, sun sami damar sauka da wasu daga cikin sojojin su, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya fuskanci wani babban sojojin Faransa wanda ya yi hanzari ya yi tafiya daga Brest. A cikin gwagwarmaya don dawo da mutanensa a kan jiragen ruwa, Bligh ya yi yaƙi da rikice-rikice na baya, yakin Saint Cast yana shan wahala tsakanin 750 zuwa 1000 kafin ya sami damar sake dawo da mutanensa. Bayan haka, suka kama jirgin ruwa zuwa Ingila.