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Subj: Today in History - Nov 22
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Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolinaâ€Ös Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy
force sent from Virginia.
Believed to be a native of England, Edward Teach likely began his pirating career in 1713, when he became a crewman aboard a Ca
ribbean sloop commanded by pirate Benjamin Hornigold. In 1717, after Hornigold accepted an offer of general amnesty by the Brit
ish crown and retired as a pirate, Teach took over a captured 26-gun French merchantman, increased its armament to 40 guns, and
renamed it the Queen Anneâ€Ös Revenge.
During the next six months, the Queen Anneâ€Ös Revenge served as the flagship of a pirate fleet featuring up to four vessels an
d more than 200 men. Teach became the most infamous pirate of his day, winning the popular name of Blackbeard for his long, dar
k beard. Blackbeardâ€Ös pirate forces terrorized the Caribbean and the southern coast of North America and were notorious for t
heir cruelty.
In May 1718, the Queen Anneâ€Ös Revenge and another vessel were shipwrecked, forcing Blackbeard to desert a third ship and most
of his men because of a lack of supplies. With the single remaining ship, Blackbeard sailed to Bath in North Carolina and met
with Governor Charles Eden. Eden agreed to pardon Blackbeard in exchange for a share of his sizable booty.
At the request of North Carolina planters, Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia dispatched a British naval force under Lieu
tenant Robert Maynard to North Carolina to deal with Blackbeard. On November 22, Blackbeardâ€Ös forces were defeated and he was
killed in a bloody battle of Ocracoke Island. Legend has it that Blackbeard, who captured more than 30 ships in his brief pira
ting career, received five musket-ball wounds and 20 sword lacerations before dying.
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