Blackbeard`s Mischevious Travels

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6: Jamaica

Blackbeard’s career started as a seaman on privateers sailing out of Jamaica during the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713). Later in his career he served under Benjamin Hornigold on a Jamaican ship as a pirate. He continued pirating as the captain of his own ship.

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7: New Providence Island, Bahamas

In the spring of 1717, Hornigold and Teach sailed from Providence for the continent of North America, and on their way, captured a small ship with 120 barrels of flour. They put the flour on board their own vessel. They also seized two other ships. From one they took several gallons of wine, and from the other, plunder of a considerable value.

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8: Martinique

Late in the fall of 1717, Blackbeard and his pirates made their way to the eastern Caribbean. It was here, off the island Martinique, that Blackbeard and his fellow pirates captured the French slave ship 'La Concorde'. Blackbeard kept this vesselt as his flagship and renamed it, “The Queen Anne’s Revenge.”

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9: Bath, North Carolina

In January 1718, Blackbeard established a headquarters near colonial Bath, North Carolina. The governor of North Carolina, Charles Eden, was supposedly favored pirates because pirates often sold their contraband to local merchants. There were also rumors that Eden was very close to Blackbeard and supposedly a business partner with Blackbeard.

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10: Charleston, South Carolina

On the way to Charleston, Blackbeard found a ship and four sloops. When Teach hoisted his flag, and began to fire at them, the captain and his men left their ship and fled to shore. Teach burned two of the sloops, and let the others depart. Blackbeard blockaded the port of Charleston for nearly a week. The pirates seized several ships attempting to enter or leave the port and detained the crew and passengers of one ship, the Crowley, as prisoners. As ransom for the hostages, Blackbeard demanded a chest of medicine. The medicines were eventually delivered, the captives were released, and the pirates continued their journey down the coast.

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11: Dominican Republic

Blackbeard sailed north along the Lesser Antilles capturing ships near St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Nevis, and Antigua, and by early December he had arrived off the eastern end of Puerto Rico. From there, a former captive reported that the pirates were headed to Samana Bay in the Dominican Republic.

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12: Ocracoke, NC

Blackbeard died on November 22, 1718 in Ocrakoke, North Carolina. As he was sailing up the coast, he became trapped between two navy ships and a sandbar. Blackbeard and his crew got ready to fight and so did Lieutenant Robert Maynard and his crew. The next day Blackbeard headed straight toward the sandbar going through a narrow channel. When the navy ships followed, they got stuck because they hit the sandbar. When Blackbeard fired his cannons, his ship hurled backwards and also got stuck on the sandbar. One of the navy ships was completely destroyed and Maynard’s was battered. Maynard told his crew to throw food and water barrels overboard so they would float away from the sandbar. Then Maynard and his crew hid below deck with pistols and swords ready. Blackbeard and his crew threw grenades on the seemingly empty ship. But when the pirates bordered the ship, Maynard and his crew jumped out and started shooting. Blackbeard came face to face with Maynard and they both shot. Blackbeard missed, but Maynard hit Blackbeard. Even though Blackbeard was shot, he still managed to cut Maynard’s sword blade with his sword. Then, just before Blackbeard finished off Maynard, one of Maynard’s crew members came up behind Blackbeard and slashed his throat.

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