#41 Blackbeard - History's Most Feared Pirate
The story of a pirate who had the audacity to attack and besiege the coast of South Carolina
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Hope you are have an amazing week. Today’s newsletter tells an interesting story of the most notorious pirate - Blackbeard. This article details the sequence of events which eventually led to his gruesome death, with his decapitated head hung on a pole!
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Blackbeard is perhaps history’s topmost notorious pirate. He was born as Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (different names are used in literature) in Bristol, England, and, as a young man, he aspired to join the Navy. After his father’s death, Edward served in the Royal Navy during Queen Anne’s War from 1701 to 1704. However, later Edward shifted his career and chose to become a pirate.
He adopted the name of Blackbeard as he had a huge black coloured beard. Blackbeard terrorized the coasts of North America and the Caribbean for two years. He plundered many ships and murdered many sailors, and gained notoriety as the most feared pirate in the Golden age of piracy. In 1718, the British army ambushed Blackbeard and killed him. Blackbeard’s head was decapitated and hung at the front of a British ship as a sign of warning for other pirates.
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