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home | newest check | boards | help index | log | ps | userlogin | send sysop | slog | status forward | bcm news | users | version | remove cookieKF5JRV > TODAY 22.11.25 21:33l 32 Lines 1900 Bytes #5 (0) @ WW BID : 16460_KF5JRV Subj: Today in History - Nov 22 Path: JH4XSY<JE7YGF<LU4ECL<VK2RZ<N6PNK<VE3CGR<K7EK<NS2B<KE0GB<KF5JRV Sent: 251122/1224Z 16460@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA BPQ6.0.24 Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolina窶冱 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 Anne窶冱 Revenge. During the next six months, the Queen Anne窶冱 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. Blackbeard窶冱 pirate forces terrorized the Caribbean and the southern coast of North America and were notorious for t heir cruelty. In May 1718, the Queen Anne窶冱 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, Blackbeard窶冱 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. 73 de Scott KF5JRV Pmail: KF5JRV@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA Email KF5JRV@gmail.com
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