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	Colonial Williamsburg Journal
		William Howard, who served as quartermaster under Blackbeard, was captured in Virginia and charged for serving with "one Edward Tach and other Wickid and desolute Persons." In the interim, it was learned that the sea rovers were planning to fortify Ocracoke Island as their haven.
		It is said that Blackbeard in battle array was an awesome sight and, to sailors of the day, as feared as the devil himself, to which many believed him akin.
		A contemporary described portions of stolen pirate loot being carried to Eden House and observed that "Governors are but Men." Blackbeard proceeded to acquire a fine home near Bath, North Carolina--an area where frontier morality still prevailed--and was married by Governor Eden to a 16-year-old bride who, unbeknownst to her, was his 14th wife.
	www.history.org /foundation/journal/blackbea.cfm (2224 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Blackbeard Island
		It was called Blackbeard Island as early as 1760, when the island was delineated as such on a survey map compiled by William DeBrahm and Henry Yonge.
		Blackbeard Island was owned by a consortium of French investors for eleven years beginning in 1789.
		Live oak timber from the south Atlantic coastal islands was in heavy demand in the first half of the nineteenth century because of its suitability for the construction of wooden naval vessels.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-929 (919 words)

	Blackbeard the Pirate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blackbeard worked hard at establishing his devilish image, but there is no archival evidence to indicate that he ever killed anyone who was not trying to kill him.
		Blackbeard used the QAR as his prime weapon during the height of his reign of terror, culminating in his audacious week-long blockade of the port of Charleston (then Charles Town), S.C. in late May 1718.
		During the seven months that Blackbeard commanded her, QAR is known to have participated in the andquottaking" of at least eighteen ships as andquotprizes." Archival records indicate that Blackbeard and his cohorts probably removed most (if not all) of their booty of gold and silver when she became stranded and was abandoned at Beaufort Inlet.
	www.blackbeard.com /beard_facts.htm (3264 words)

	Blackbeard!
		Blackbeard had been to Bath many times before but this time he was coming in his prize ship, the best in the pirate fleet, capable of out gunning any British ship on the water.
		Blackbeard had made friends with Governor Eden and his secretary Tobias Knight during his earlier visits and now, in the dead of the night, Tobias allowed them to store their booty in his barn watched over by some of the pirates.
		Blackbeard was ready to run him through or commit the "coup de grace" when a stout Scott came from behind and slit his throat.
	www.outerbeaches.com /OuterBanksHistory_Blackbeard (1329 words)

	North Carolina Maritime Museum - Blackbeard the Pirate
		Blackbeard worked hard at establishing his devilish image, but there is no archival evidence to indicate that he ever killed anyone who was not trying to kill him.
		Blackbeard had captured over 40 ships during his piratical career, and his death virtually represented the end of an era in the history of piracy in the New World.
		Blackbeard was eventually tracked down to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina by the Royal Navy and killed in a brief but bloody battle on November 22, 1718.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/maritime/Blackbeard/default.htm (1224 words)

	Blackbeard : National Geographic Channel
		Sea chases, cannon battles and swordplay were common occurrences for Blackbeard and his men, but his carefully calculated visage—displaying cutlasses, pistols, a giant beard and burning cannon fuses coming out from under his hat—was so frightening to his prey that they sometimes surrendered without a fight.
		It depicts Blackbeard's alliance with the governor of North Carolina, and pits him against Gov. Spotswood of the rich colony of Virginia who, with England's King George I, was determined to end the pirate's humiliations of British power.
		Blackbeard sailed a sloop, a small, single-masted boat that was fast and agile, ideal for the shallow coastal waters preferred by merchant ships.
	channel.nationalgeographic.com /channel/blackbeard/synopsis.html (802 words)

	Blackbeard Catering Company - Uncyclopedia
		Blackbeard wanted the company "to provide excellent food for singular occasions" and "to seize the doubloons from the bleedin' Spanish." While the firm excelled at the latter, built-in handicaps prevented it from fully achieving its primary goal.
		Blackbeard soon returned to full-time piracy, but never got the business out of his head; he was killed by royal soldiers in 1718 while attempting to sell shrimp kebabs to locals in North Carolina.
		Blackbeard was equally exacting on those charged with laying out the tables, screaming "Woe to he who hides me chicken dijon!" at his waiters.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Blackbeard_Catering_Company (1085 words)

	Blackbeard : National Geographic Channel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sea chases, cannon battles and swordplay were common occurrences for Blackbeard and his men, but his carefully calculated visage—displaying cutlasses, pistols, a giant beard and burning cannon fuses coming out from under his hat—was so frightening to his prey that they sometimes surrendered without a fight.
		It depicts Blackbeard's alliance with the governor of North Carolina, and pits him against Gov. Spotswood of the rich colony of Virginia who, with England's King George I, was determined to end the pirate's humiliations of British power.
		Blackbeard sailed a sloop, a small, single-masted boat that was fast and agile, ideal for the shallow coastal waters preferred by merchant ships.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /channel/blackbeard/synopsis.html (802 words)

	Legends - Pirates and Privateers - Blackbeard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yet it was as Blackbeard that he was, and still is, known, and it was under this name that the people of his generation knew him, 'a swaggering, merciless brute.'" -- Hugh F. Rankin.
		The Underwater Archaeology Unit (UAU) of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources in association with the private research firm Intersal, Inc., has conducted three major expeditions to a wreck believed to be the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's flagship, which sank at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina in 1718.
		The site includes A General History of Blackbeard, the Queen Anne's Revenge and the Adventure; reports of the excavations, 1997-2003; and a guide to the artifacts uncovered.
	legends.duelingmodems.com /pirates/blackbeard.html (300 words)

	Blackbeard
		Blackbeard, for so Teach was generally called, as we shall hereafter show, as soon as he had received the medicines and his brother rogues, let go the ships and the prisoners; having first taken out of them in gold and silver about £1,500 sterling, besides provisions and other matters.
		Blackbeard had heard several reports which happened not to be true, and so gave the less credit to this, nor was he convinced till he saw the sloops, whereupon he put his vessel in a posture of defence.
		Blackbeard received a shot in his body from the pistol that Lieutenant Maynard, discharged, yet he stood his ground, and fought with great fury till he received five-and-twenty wounds, and five of them by shot.
	www.deadmentellnotales.com /onlinetexts/blackbeard.shtml (6087 words)

	Blackbeard
		Blackbeard was certainly one of the most notorious pirates of his time.
		Blackbeard continued to swing his cutlass as blood was spurting from his neck.
		It is doubtful that Blackbeard ever had any treasure to bury as he never took a prize of much value and that which he took was more than likely spent on his lavish lifestyle.
	www.geocities.com /captcutlass/bio/blackbeard.html (1138 words)

	Problem D: Blackbeard the Pirate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blackbeard the Pirate has stashed up to 10 treasures on a tropical island, and now he wishes to retrieve them.
		Blackbeard is no fool; when he hid the treasures, he carefully drew a map of the island which contains the position of each treasure and positions of all obstacles and hostile natives that are present on the island.
		Blackbeard travels at a nice slow pace of one mile (or square) per hour, but he sure can dig fast, because digging up a treasure incurs no time penalty whatsoever.
	acm.uva.es /p/v109/10937.html (364 words)

	Blackbeard's Shipwreck, Blackbeard Lives - National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Once again, Blackbeard is the man of the hour at the annual festival in his honor, a celebration of pirate life and times with mock battles, swordplay, and the odd removal of limbs.
		Blackbeard convinced Stede Bonnet to take some of his men and sail to Bath, where North Carolina's governor had a plantation, to accept the King's pardon, which had just been extended.
		While he was gone, Blackbeard gathered 40 loyal pirates and 60 captured slaves and stripped Adventure and Queen Anne's Revenge of anything of value—cheating his fellow brigands of their share of the booty.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0607/feature6/index.html (2293 words)

	Blackbeard Island NWR Home Page
		Blackbeard Island was acquired by the Navy Department at public auction in 1800 as a source of live oak timber for ship building.
		Blackbeard Island NWR offers a variety of recreational activities year-round.
		Blackbeard Island NWR is one of seven refuges administered by the Savannah Coastal Refuges Complex.
	www.fws.gov /blackbeardisland (227 words)

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		Blackbeard and his crew decided to keep La Concorde and left the French the smaller of the two pirate sloops.
		No historical records have been located to chronicle Blackbeard's movements during the first three months of 1718, but by April the pirates were off the Turneffe Islands in the Bay of Honduras.
		As ransom for the hostages, Blackbeard demanded that the pirates be given a chest of medicine.
	www.qaronline.org /history/search.htm (1400 words)

	North Carolina Collection-This Month in North Carolina History - The Death of Blackbeard
		Blackbeard was widely feared for his violence and cruelty and cultivated a fierce appearance to intimidate his victims.
		Blackbeard favored Ocracoke Inlet and was rumored to have had a house in Ocracoke village.
		In the summer of 1718, Blackbeard lived in the coastal town of Bath, North Carolina, where he was known to have socialized with Governor Eden.
	www.lib.unc.edu /ncc/ref/nchistory/nov2003/nov2003.html (691 words)

	Edward Teach
		Blackbeard needed to maintain his devilish image in order to maintain the respect of his crew (very few members of the crew doubted that he was the devil himself, very few didn’t fear him, and therefore they obeyed him).
		Blackbeard; however, did not stop his pirate habits, and continued to take ships after the period of amnesty had expired.
		Blackbeard had captured over 40 ships during his piratical career, and had been the cause of the deaths of hundreds of people.
	www.piratesinfo.com /biography/biography.php?article_id=39 (716 words)

	Cape Hatteras National Seashore - Blackbeard the Pirate of Ocracoke - National Park Service
		Blackbeard set off on his own in 1717 when Hornigold rewarded him with a ship they had hijacked.
		Blackbeard sailed the Caribbean and the Atlantic along coastal waters of American colonies, torturing merchant ship crewmen and passengers, stealing valuable cargo and leaving destruction in his wake.
		Blackbeard's flag depicting a heart dripping blood while a skeleton held an hourglass and spear, was designed to strike fear in the hearts of his victims.
	www.nps.gov /archive/caha/blackb.htm (639 words)

	Blackbeard's Ship
		Most historians, however, think Blackbeard grounded the ship intentionally, loaded his loot onto a schooner, and then fled with a smaller crew so he wouldn't have to divide his fortune among several hundred men.
		Blackbeard's career as a pirate captain lasted just 15 months, from the time he took control of the ship he renamed the Queen Anne's Revenge until Nov. 22, 1718, when he lost his head in hand-to-hand combat aboard the British ship sent to capture him.
		Blackbeard is known to have looted at least 50 ships.
	www.timmers.net /timmers/hatteras/spirit/bbrdship.htm (1292 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Blackbeard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blackbeard: Terror at Sea Buy the Original DVD Documentary of the Infamous and Notorious Pirate.
		The Blackbeard mystique: for more than 50 years, archers from around the nation have hunted whitetails on this untamed Georgia Island.
		BLACKBEARD"S LAST SECRET; His blood-curdling antics and satanic appearance terrified even his own men.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Blackbeard (728 words)

	Blackbeard's Ghost: A North Carolina Ghost Story from American Folklore
		For twenty-seven months, Blackbeard terrorized the sailors of the Atlantic and the Caribbean, ambushing ships and stealing their cargo, killing those who opposed him, often attacking in the dim light of dawn or dusk when his pirate ship was most difficult to see.
		Blackbeard fired his cannons at the remaining ship and many of Maynard's men were killed.
		Blackbeard swung his cutlass and managed to snap off Maynard's sword blade near the hilt.
	www.americanfolklore.net /folktales/nc2.html (744 words)

	The UnMuseum - Pirates
		Blackbeard (left) was a big man, with a naturally scowling face, long, thick fl hair and beard, and wild, deep-set eyes.
		Blackbeard, whose real name is thought to be Edward Teach, began his career as a privateer, but after the Treaty of Utrecht joined the crew of a pirate ship.
		In May of 1718, Blackbeard was bold enough to blockade the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, using the Queen Anne's Revenge and two smaller vessels, and demand ransom.
	www.unmuseum.org /pirate.htm (1992 words)

	Blackbeard's Realm - Blackbeard, Black Beard, Edward Teach, Blackbeard the pirate
		Blackbeard arrived in New Providence, Bahamas in 1716 as an understudy of Benjamin Hornigold, and after a year of successful apprenticeship had acquired his own ship - the French slaver 'Concorde'.
		Blackbeard would head north to North Carolina and Hornigold would receive pardon and become the commander of an anti-piracy fleet.
		Blackbeard was so amused when meeting gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet in late 1717 or early 1718, he took him into his company and added Bonnet's sloop the 'Revenge' to his flotilla.
	www.blackbeardsrealm.com /Blackbeard.html (860 words)

	Blackbeard
		Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and having gone to Jamaica, frequently sailed from that port as one of the crew of a privateer during the French war.
		Though the affront thus offered to the Government was great and most audacious, yet, to preserve the lives of so many men, they granted their request, and sent on board a chest valued at three or four hundred pounds.
		Teach and some of his abandoned crew waited upon his excellency, and swore that they had seized the French ship at sea, without a soul on board; therefore a court was called, and she was condemned, the honorable governor received sixty hogsheads of sugar for his share, his secretary twenty, and the pirates the remainder.
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /blackbeard.htm (2912 words)

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