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	Pirate Encyclopedia: Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Edward Teach strove for a powerful, fearsome reputation which is how he became most famously known as the pirate "Blackbeard." Although he went by the names Edward Thatch and Edward Drummond, "Blackbeard" stuck.
		Known for his massive size, he was 6 feet 4 inches tall, he began his career by sailing to Jamaica and working on a privateer.
		Blackbeard's reign came to an end when Lieutenant Robert Maynard, Captain of the HMS Pearl, was sent to hunt and destroy him by the Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood.
	ageofpirates.com /article.php?Edward_Blackbeard_Teach (462 words)

	Edward Teach
		Edward Teach (or Thatch) was Blackbeard the Pirate, an infamous prowler of the waters off the southeastern coast of the American colonies from around 1713 to 1718.
		Not much is known about his early life, but by 1717 he was well-known along the coast of the Carolinas.
		Edward Teach - Pirate, born ?, The pirate known as "Blackbeard"
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/blackbeard.html (197 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Pirate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant problem (with estimated worldwide losses of $13 to $16 billion USD per year), particularly in the waters between the Pacific and Indian oceans, and specifically in the straits of Malacca and Singapore, used by over 50,000 commercial ships a year.
		Dutch pirates were known as kapers or vrijbuiters ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words vrij meaning free, buit meaning loot, and the ending -er meaning agent.
		A privateer or corsair was similar in method but had a commission or a letter of marque from a government or king to capture merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Pirate (2926 words)

	Robert Newton: "Blackbeard the Pirate" vs. History
		Blackbeard complains, "There 'e sits, up there in 'is castle, the great Sir Henry Morgan, with all the loot o' Panama—gold, silver, jewels—that's what 'e's sittin' on up there." The "castle" he refers to is the fortress in which Morgan resides.
		In 1666, Dutch pirate Edward Mansvelt (anglicized to Mansfield) was indeed elected "admiral" of a fleet of 600 buccaneers (referred to in later literature as the "Brethren of the Coast") at the urging of Governor Thomas Modyford of Jamaica, who sought to protect his island from Spanish attacks.
		The real Blackbeard was renowned for his terrifying appearance; the mere sight of him was generally enough to cause his intended prey to surrender without a fight.
	www.mooncove.com /newton/BB-history.htm (2752 words)

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