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Blackbeard
He is said to have been a privateer during Queen Anne’s War and joined Benjamin Horningold’s crew as a pirate and under the name of Edward Teach sometime after 1713. Soon they were among the most feared pirates of the Caribbean. Horningold accepted the British Crown’s offer of a general amnesty and retired as a pirate. Blackbeard rejected a pardon, decided to make the Concord his flagship, increased her armament to 40 guns, and re-named her Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR).
During the winter of 1717-1718, the QAR cruised the Caribbean, taking prizes. When he sailed northward up the American coast in the spring 1718, he was in command of four vessels and over 300 pirates. In late May 1718 the QAR was lost at Beaufort Inlet. Blackbeard and some of his crew absconded with much of the booty aboard another smaller vessel while leaving the rest behind. They sailed to Bath and the capital of North Carolina, where Blackbeard and his men received pardons from the Governor, Charles Eden. Blackbeard was killed on November 22, 1718 in a bloody battle at Ocracoke Inlet. He had captured 40 ships during his piratical career, and his death virtually represented the end of an era in the history of piracy in the New World.
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Blackbeard is thought to have been a native of England and
was using the name Edward Drummond before he went into piracy. His date of
birth is unknown and he died on November 22, 1718. He sailed out of his
homeport of Bristol, England as an honest seaman. 