Blackbeard
Blackbeard was a notorious pirate who was acknowledged as Edward Teach. He was believed to be born in Bristol, England. He served as the apprentice of Captain Benjamin Hornigold; they worked off the Bahama Islands as the base of their operations.
Captain Hornigold retired in early 1718 from piracy. He took full advantage of the king's pardon when Woodes Rogers arrived in Nassau on July 27, 1718 as the newly appointed governor of the Bahama Islands. Blackbeard stayed a pirate after his captain retired and in fact took over as Captain of the ship.
Teach renamed the French ship “Concord” which he and Captain Hornigold had captured, into a pirate ship of his own design. He renamed her “Queen Anne's Revenge” and mounted upon her forty guns. The vessel was eventually manned by a crew of three hundred, some of who had been members of her crew when she sailed under the French flag. …show more content…
He allowed his monstrous mane to grow to an extravagant length, and he was accustomed to braiding it into little pigtails, tied with ribbons of various colors. As a finishing touch before a battle, he tucked under the brim of his hat fuses that would burn at the rate of a foot an hour, the curling wisps of smoke from which added to the frightfulness of his appearance.
Near the end of May 1718, when Teach was at the high tide of his piratical career, he and his armed fleet of five or six vessels appeared outside the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, and blockaded the busiest and most important port of the southern colonies. All vessels, inbound or outbound, were stopped and looted. Teach demanded and received from the governor of South Carolina and his council a chest of medicine. Without the firing of a single gun, the pirate king reduced to total submission the proud and militant people of South
Blackbeard was a notorious pirate who was acknowledged as Edward Teach. He was believed to be born in Bristol, England. He served as the apprentice of Captain Benjamin Hornigold; they worked off the Bahama Islands as the base of their operations.
Captain Hornigold retired in early 1718 from piracy. He took full advantage of the king's pardon when Woodes Rogers arrived in Nassau on July 27, 1718 as the newly appointed governor of the Bahama Islands. Blackbeard stayed a pirate after his captain retired and in fact took over as Captain of the ship.
Teach renamed the French ship “Concord” which he and Captain Hornigold had captured, into a pirate ship of his own design. He renamed her “Queen Anne's Revenge” and mounted upon her forty guns. The vessel was eventually manned by a crew of three hundred, some of who had been members of her crew when she sailed under the French flag. …show more content…
He allowed his monstrous mane to grow to an extravagant length, and he was accustomed to braiding it into little pigtails, tied with ribbons of various colors. As a finishing touch before a battle, he tucked under the brim of his hat fuses that would burn at the rate of a foot an hour, the curling wisps of smoke from which added to the frightfulness of his appearance.
Near the end of May 1718, when Teach was at the high tide of his piratical career, he and his armed fleet of five or six vessels appeared outside the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, and blockaded the busiest and most important port of the southern colonies. All vessels, inbound or outbound, were stopped and looted. Teach demanded and received from the governor of South Carolina and his council a chest of medicine. Without the firing of a single gun, the pirate king reduced to total submission the proud and militant people of South