He lived on the island of Nassau where he was named the magistrate of the "Privateers Republic". Teach had headquarters in both the Bahamas and the Carolinas. with whom after he had lain all night, it was his custom to invite five or six of his brutal companions to come ashore, and he would force her to prostitute herself to them all, one after another, before his face. and this I have been informed, made Teach's fourteenth wife.
When Blackbeard emerged, he snarled, "Damn ye, ye yellow _ _ _! I'm a better man than all ye milksops put together!" According to Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates: “īefore he sailed upon his adventures, he married a young creature of about sixteen years of age. All except Blackbeard scrambled out for fresh air. Soon the men were coughing and gasping for air from the sulphurous fumes. One tale claims he shot his own first mate, saying "if he didn’t shoot one or two now and then, they’d forget who he was." Another legend is that having had too much to drink, he said to his crew, "Come, let us make a hell of our own, and try how long we can bear it." Going into the ship's hold, they closed the hatches, filled several pots with brimstone and set it on fire. However, colourful legends and vivid contemporary newspaper portrayals had him committing acts of cruelty and terror. Ironically, despite his ferocious reputation, there are no verified accounts of him actually killing anyone. The pirates would seize all of the valuables, food, liquor, and weapons. However, historian David Cordingly has noted that the Scarborough's log has no mention of any such battle.īlackbeard would plunder merchant ships, forcing them to allow his crew to board their ship. According to Charles Johnson, Blackbeard fought a running duel with the British thirty-gun man-of-war HMS Scarborough, which added to his notoriety. Teach then took command of his own ship.ĭuring the next two years, Teach cultivated a reputation for cruelty, repeatedly preying on coastal settlements of the West Indies and the Atlantic coast of North America. In 1718, Hornigold retired, taking advantage of an amnesty offered to former privateers by the British government. Teach began as a pirate under Benjamin Hornigold. At the war's end in 1713, Teach, like many other privateers, turned to piracy. He served on an English ship in the War of the Spanish Succession, privateering in the Spanish West Indies and along the Spanish Main. Teach (or Thatch) went to sea at an early age. He is thought to have been born in Bristol, but some writers claim New York, California, Philadelphia, or even Denmark as his home. Nevertheless, he is referred to in some documents as Edward Thatch or even Edward Drummond. īlackbeard's real name is not definitely known, though he was generally called Edward Teach. This image, which he cultivated, has made him the premier image of the seafaring pirate.
Accounts of people who saw him fighting say that they thought he "looked like the devil " with his fearsome face and the smoke cloud around his head. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates that he had hemp and lighted matches woven into his enormous black beard during battle. 1790), in Bath.īlackbeard often fought, or simply showed himself, wearing a big feathered tricorn, and having multiple swords, knives, and pistols at his disposal. A painting of him hangs in Van Der Veer House (ce. His last wife was Mary Ormond (or Ormand) of Bath, North Carolina, to whom he was married for only a short while. The General History claims that he had as many as fourteen wives, most of them common-law, but documentation is lacking. His best known vessel was the Queen Anne's Revenge, which is believed to have run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina in 1718. 1680 – November 22, 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 18th century, a period of time referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy.
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