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Author: Roger HurnBlackbeard Blackbeard was born in Bristol in 1690. His real name was Edward Teach. Blackbeard and his crew of pirates terrorised sailors on the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea from 1716 to 1718. Ships usually surrendered without a ...
Author: Angus KonstamThe Sea Nymph didn't last long– a week later Blackbeard captured a 'great sloop' bound from Curaçao with a cargo of cocoa. The beans were thrown overboard, but the pirates kept this new vessel, and gave the Sea Nymph to Captain Goulet ...
Author: Cristina Iuga69 Blackbeard's real words, written in his diary. (A/N) 70 the nickname of a whip specific to the pirates, made up of nine pleated pieces of rope, called “tails”. (A/N) 71 a kind of dry food, resembling biscuits, frequently eaten on ...
Author: Iszi LawrenceBlackbeard was on the quarterdeck, holding something in his arms. 'You all be wastin' time. ... The boy was fighting to break free but Blackbeard had already tied him by the ankles and he toppled over. Blackbeard signalled to Howard.
Author: James BlackBlackbeard almost had to lean forward to hear him. 'They say that you recovered two more jars, but not the last one. And that you have maps and logs from the North African pirates.' 'What of it?' said Blackbeard.
Author: Mark U. Wilde-RamsingNot so with Blackbeard. After capturing the French slave ship and former privateer Concorde, he decided to keep it as his flagship and augmented its armament to meet any challenges the authorities could muster at the time.
Author: John PerritanoBlackbeard was bad. Yet, North Carolina's governor gave Blackbeard a safe place to live. At the time, North Carolina was a British colony. The governor gave Blackbeard one of several islands off the North Carolina coast.
Author: Andrew G RiddellWhen Blackbeard and ten of his men swung themselves aboard the British ship, Blackbeard and a naval officer singled each other out in a personnel duel. Blackbeard and the officer both fired a pistol shot at each other and the pirate was ...
Author: Clint Perry“Ahhh, I see we now be gettin' somewhere,” Vane applauded, ignoring Blackbeard's warning, while glancing at his crew in excitement. “Ya do know where it be!” “Aye,” Blackbeard conceded. “Now that we've gotten this far,” Vane enthused, ...
Author: Le GrandLeGrand's schooner, White Wings," undoubtedly has sailed over the very spots where Black- beard once piloted his pirate ship. Wherever LeGrand travels, he picks up choice regional tales. These he expands and illustrates in his very own ...