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Blackbeard(orig. Edward Teach)
Born: 1675 AD
Died: 1718 AD, at 42 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Adventurers, Felon, Terrorist
Died: 1718 AD, at 42 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Adventurers, Felon, Terrorist
1675 – Born- November 23rd, in Bristol, England. Edward Teach better known as Blackbeard was a notorious English pirate who had a short reign of terror in the Caribbean Sea.
1716 – He served as a pirate under Benjamin Hornigold who retired in 1717, taking advantage of an amnesty extended to privateers by the British government.
1718 – His best known vessel was the Queen Anne's Revenge, which is believed by some to have run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina and died this year.
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