The Most Iconic Episode From the Life of Blackbeard Is How It Ended. Here’s How the Pirate Really Died

The death of Blackbeard is one of the most famous events in the history of piracy. Not surprisingly, the exact way in which ...
Post and Courier

Museum pirate display shows Blackbeard’s possible connection to Berkeley County

The Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center features a new exhibit highlighting one of the most famous pirates in history. For centuries, history books have recorded that Edward Teach – formally ...
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How Blackbeard became history's most fearsome pirate

Blackbeard’s reputation didn’t happen by accident, and it wasn’t built on nonstop bloodshed the way movies love to suggest. In real life, he operated during the chaotic “Golden Age of Piracy,” when ...
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History with ‘Hud’: Remembering famous pirates who once ruled the Cape Fear coast

SOUTHPORT, NC (WWAY) — When discussing famous pirates, one name always tops the list. Edward Teach — better known as Blackbeard – once called the North Carolina region home, frequently moving up and ...
Washington Examiner

Crime History: Blackbeard killed in battle off N.C. coast

On this day, Nov. 22, in 1718, Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard, was killed in a battle off the North Carolina coast. Blackbeard is believed to have begun pirating in 1713. He later ...
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The Real Pirates That Inspired Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard in "Our Flag Means Death"

Yo ho ho! The pirate comedy "Our Flag Means Death" is back for a second season, and we couldn't be more excited to catch up with Stede, Ed, and the rest of our favorite criminal misfits. The quirky ...
The Island Packet

Blackbeard the pirate went on ‘trial’ in a Washington courtroom. What was the verdict?

Blackbeard, played by Carl Cannon of Beaufort, and his nemesis, Lt. Robert Maynard, played by John Collamore of Virginia Martha Quillin The News & Observer Washington, N.C. A cast of political and ...