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English pirates
Blackbeard, Henry Every, Edward Low, Stede Bonnet, Woodes Rogers, William Dampier, Robert Searle, Calico Jack, Samuel Bellamy, Daniel Elfrith, Peter Love, Mary Read, John Phillips, Thomas Tew, Charles Vane, George Shelvocke
ISBN/EAN: 9781155796734
Umbreit-Nr.: 7077910
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 74 S.
Format in cm: 0.5 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 08.08.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 74. Chapters: Blackbeard, Henry Every, Edward Low, Stede Bonnet, Woodes Rogers, William Dampier, Robert Searle, Calico Jack, Samuel Bellamy, Daniel Elfrith, Peter Love, Mary Read, John Phillips, Thomas Tew, Charles Vane, George Shelvocke, Benjamin Hornigold, Jack Ward, John Quelch, Edward Davis, Michael Geare, Thomas Anstis, Henry Strangways, Lancelot Blackburne, Henry Mainwaring, James Alday, Christopher Myngs, John Nutt, Peter Easton, Thomas Green, Simon Hatley, Robert Culliford, John Clipperton, William Rous, Nathaniel Butler, Richard Worley, William Kyd, George Lowther, Ignatius Pell, John Watling, William Wright, John Fenn, Richard Sawkins, Edward Collier, Eric Cobham and Maria Lindsey, Ganj-i-Sawai, George Booth, Thomas Whenstone, Christopher Condent, Dixie Bull, Daniel Johnson, William Jackson, Charles Bellamy, Edward Denny, William Fly, Samuel Axe, Thomas Walton, William Aleyn, James Kelly, Nicholas Brown, Cornelius Essex, Thomas Pound, Abdulla al-Hadj, William Knight, James Reiskimmer, Thomas Cocklyn, Adam Baldridge, William Condon, Clinton Atkinson, Blackbeard in popular culture, Ambrose Cowley, Robert Walsingham, Peter Harris, Nicholas Alvel, Lewis Scot, Charles Harris, John Ansell. Excerpt: Edward Teach (c. 1680 - 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies. Teach was most likely born in Bristol, although little is known about his early life. In 1716 he joined the crew of Benjamin Hornigold, a pirate who operated from the Caribbean island of New Providence. He quickly acquired his own ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, and from 1717 to 1718 became a renowned pirate. His cognomen, Blackbeard, was derived from his thick black beard and fearsome appearance; he was reported to have tied lit fuses under his hat to frighten his enemies. After parting company with Hornigold, Teach formed an alliance of pirates and with his cohort blockaded the port of Charleston, South Carolina. He successfully ransomed its inhabitants and then soon after, ran his ship aground on a sandbar near Beaufort, North Carolina. Teach accepted a royal pardon but was soon back at sea, where he attracted the attention of the Governor of Virginia, Alexander Spotswood. Spotswood arranged for a party of soldiers and sailors to find and capture the pirate, which they did on 22 November 1718. During a ferocious battle, Teach was killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard. A shrewd and calculating leader, Teach avoided the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image to elicit the response he desired from those he robbed. Contrary to the modern-day picture of the traditional tyrannical pirate, he commanded his vessels with the permission of their crews and there are no known accounts of his ever having harmed or murdered those he held captive. He was romanticised after his death, and became the inspiration for a number of pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres. Little is known about Blackbeard's early life. It is commonly believed that at the time of his death he was between 35 and 40, and thus born in about 1680. In contemporary record