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Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies.
Sep 12, 2024 · Blackbeard (born c. 1680, Bristol?, England—died November 22, 1718, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina [U.S.]) was one of history’s most famous pirates, who became an imposing figure in American folklore. Little is known of Blackbeard’s early life, and his origins have been left to speculation.
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- Blackbeard Was Not His Real Name. Newspapers and other historical records called Blackbeard Edward Thatch or Edward Teach, spelled in a variety of ways, including Thach, Thache, and Tack.
- Blackbeard Learned From Other Pirates. At the end of Queen Anne's War (1702–1713, one of several French and Indian Wars fought in North America), Blackbeard served as a crewman aboard the ship of the legendary English privateer Benjamin Hornigold.
- Blackbeard Had One of the Mightiest Pirate Ships Ever to Set Sail. In November of 1717, Blackbeard captured a very important prize, a large French slaving vessel called La Concorde.
- His Ship Initially Transported Enslaved Africans. Before its life as a pirate ship, La Concorde was used by its captains to bring hundreds of captured Africans to Martinique between 1713 and 1717.
Jul 15, 2019 · Edward Teach (c. 1683–November 22, 1718), whose surname was spelled Thache and is better known as "Blackbeard," was the most feared pirate of his day and perhaps the figure most often associated with the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean—or piracy in general, for that matter. Fast Facts: Edward 'Blackbeard' Thache.
Blackbeard’s early life. Little is known of Edward Teach before his rise to Pirate captain. It is thought he began his life at sea as a British privateer in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713). Here, he would have plundered Spanish ships in the West Indies for the British government.
Aug 19, 2021 · Thanks largely to a wildly exaggerated and mostly fictional portrait by the author Charles Johnson/Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), Blackbeard became the most colourful of all the pirates of the so-called Golden Age of Piracy.
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Nov 10, 2021 · On 22 November 1718, Edward Teach, a man better known as Blackbeard, was killed in a fight with Royal Marines on the deck of his ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge. One of the most notorious pirates in history, his severed head was brought back to the governor of Virginia in order to gain a substantial bounty. The period in North America from 1689 to ...
