Boom! A pirate ship fires its cannon. The explosion rocks a nearby merchant ship. Bullets fly. Grenades explode. A wounded helmsman staggers. He lets go of the ship's wheel, and the ship swings around wildly out of control. Flames are everywhere. Pirates, shouting out curses and threats, board the merchant ship. They swing axes and cutlasses. Hissing through his teeth, Blackbeard—one of the most dreaded pirates ever—jumps to the merchant deck. He stands tall and Sashes stuffed with pistols and daggers crisscross his large chest. Black ribbons flap from the braids in his beard and terrified sailors flee. Blackbeard and his frightening crew have pirated another ship. Blackbeard was a pirate not to be messed with.
Blackbeard wasn’t always a pirate. His real name was Edward Teach and he was born in the 1680’s. When Edward was a young sailor he had severed on a British privateer (a legalized pirate) in Jamaica. His mission was to attack French and Spanish ships during the Spanish war (he was allowed to keep the stuff he found). When the war ended in 1813, Edward was experienced in the art of sea robbing. Like a lot of previous privateers, he decided to be a pirate. With his tall figure and booming voice, Edward was a terrifying pirate.
Blackbeard was under the command of another pirate for several years before becoming a captain. In 1716 Edward was sailing under the famous pirate captain (at least famous at the time), Benjamin Thornigold. These two pirates terrorized the Indies and the American coast for a year before the two rascals parted ways. They split up after Edward took over a large French ship called La Concorde and renamed it Queene Anne’s Revenge. He became captain of this large vessel and he changed it into a pirate wa...
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...o frightening some even called him the devil’s own son. Another legend says that Blackbeard had buried treasure before his death. It’s unlikely that he did have buried treasure because he probably spent it on rum and other pirate stuff.
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