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Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy.

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Teach alias Blackbeard, coloredUnknownPublic domainWikimedia Commons
Blackbeard the PirateEngraved by Benjamin Cole [1] (1695–1766)Public domainWikimedia Commons
Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at FootballThomas RowlandsonCC0The Met
Blackbeard told Bonnet that he was not fit to be a pirate captain, and that he would send somebody to take charge of the Revenge. from "Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts ... With illustrations by G. Varian and B. W. Clinedinst".The British LibraryPublic domainEuropeana

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