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but mine did not have candle wax and, unlike Blackbeard Black Beard with of the most feared pirates in history and no wonder with the smoking fuses and their sashes pistols and complex systems across the chest. He definitely mastered. The art of intimidation and he did a lot to keep that reputation up. He wanted people fearing home. All, though we don't have any evidence that he ever killed. Anyone who wasn't trying to kill him, when you're fearsome pirate, that's exactly the kind of rumour you want to spread around the intimidation namely a lot of work kid you just fine, If you warning shots in the show gets handed over to you. Don't have to go through the trouble of actually fighting in flash doing so. Every story that spreads around like black beer slicing offer passengers finger when he wouldn't give him his ring that all builds up to the great black beard legend, but of course the blackened

as an always a pirate and here we had another name. She was born problem in Bristol England, although that's debated around sixteen ninety, as Edward teach or possibly at that's no one's quite sure, which will be a theme and birds life. Somebody who so surrounded in legend, there's gonna be a lot of conflicting information about him, so teach and listed as a private here for the British in the war of spanish succession, which went for Haven't you no one to seventeen thirteen private here were right. Cost of legal. The british government, obviously one to have is big of a navy as possible, but they could enhance it. A little bit with private here is, which were alive it's, a french and spanish ships and take a share of the. Body for themselves, which would help you develop your pirating stove but, of course

War comes to an end eventually and private. Here. Are no longer allowed to go around sacking french and spanish ships and there are a lot of people out of work and some of them and at turning to piracy, the golden age of piracy, was the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries and As far as America goes, there have been a bunch of laws passed by the british parliament, which had made smuggling something that was more desirable, because british imports were so expensive british taxes right. You can buy things so much cheaper from a pirate than you could from them. So they would attack merchant ships carrying grain, molasses, rum, rope tools, ammunition, pretty much everything. And go ahead and sell it to the colonists and because

North Carolina outer banks have shallow, sounds and inlets. It was a pirates, favorite hideout place, which is where Blackbeard established his home base, but that wasn't until seventeen eighteen and before that he had to get in some more pirate training. He did did that with Captain Benjamin Hornig old in the Caribbean in blackbirds sort of apprenticeship, almost with Hornig old, they depart together. Plunder a bunch of spanish and British shut up their cocoa and cord word sugar rum. Molasses. All of these useful, things, it's not so much the goal, treasure and jewels. We of course that what you think of when you think of black beard buried treasure, but you might just be finding roman sugar instead and during this time teach gets his first captaincy about small sloop and then

big guns come out when articles fleet attack the french slave ship called the Concord. I was from Martinique and teach makes it his flagship and rename that Queen Ann revenge, and it only had four team guns to start with. So he added a bunch to make it up to forty, because you know you need your guns when you're a pirate it's more than he feet long. There, three mass and he also install a cannon and teach- probably took the ship with his classic intimidation methods rather than a bloody fight. It clearly just fired from morning sites and hoisted up the pirate again the guy surrender they don't want any trouble with black beard, but the captain Concord also reported when he got back to France. That teach gave him a sloop to finish transporting its cargo of slaves, which I was the to hear that I was imagining pirates making you locked the plank in the Sunday internally, we thought and warnings

it couldn't be black teacher forever, because after the war, the british government wanted to get rid of all their pirates, so they got an officer name Woods, Rogers and hired him as the Governor Bahamas and told him he'd better, get rid of pirates. So he said grant pardons two pirates who agree to walk the straight and narrow and Hornig old is one of the ones who agreed and he became a pirate hunter, but that's ok, with black beard dynamic, as he's really struck off on his own and start patrolling the Virginia Carolina Coast for his right terror from seventeen. Sixteen seventeen eighteen I have already mentioned that the outer banks is a fantastic, a place for pirates just because of how it's designed, but it was also a great place for black beard himself, because he met a lovely corrupt politician by the name of Charles Eden. There who would allow him clemency.

Exchange for very generous primes so, in addition to the excellent geography of North Carolina and corrupt governor, is black beard actually and Canada folk here, oh the people, North Carolina they're, not the wealthy I growers or tobacco growers like South Carolina or Virginia. So there We're ok with this deal, where they get essentially duty free goods from black beard in exchange for Sarah letting him letting him hanging out or banks and eat the folk first of also comes from blackboards. Chow. And to the oppressive authority his lot it. Taking a hot poker into the eyes of british official, which sounds pretty awful I feel that that's a running theme and all the stuff tat we ve done about gangsters and laws in any way and part of it is public opinion of them. Being the hero

Who is the only one who is willing to go up against corrupt authority? But it also seems that that opinion, always at some point that out does something which just pushes the reputation over the edge and for black beard. This is in May seventeen eighteen in Charleston showed. The and as many as four hundred pirates Blackbeard cap is eight or nine ships coming into and out of Charleston over about a week, and he holds the proves that the ship hostage, along with their passengers and it, their kids on board women on board and black demands a chest of medicine in exchange for the lives of his passengers. But Charles takes a while. The pony up and in the meantime, the pirate decided, they're not going to get it and they ve sent all the citizens up to be hanged

operations are underway way. Thereabout to die and Charleston eventually comes up at the ransom and gets their people back button. Before the pirates have taken all of their. Clothing and jewelry, how they returned ashore on this naked. As the outrage description is sent back to England. But all this goes on They quickly and within a week of the Charleston hostage situation, the queen revenge is grounded, empire near the entrance to present day Buford Inlet and it's likely, the black beard, This purpose he knew how to sail a ship and how to scurry around through that our bank. So it's unlikely that he would accidently grounded ship and is well. He was sitting some petty retirement or at least stab at least change, it this man. This group of four hundred pirates and break em up a little bit

to say he marooned a bunch of pirates on one of the sand bars when he laughed and then took provisions from one of the other ships and got out of there. Addition to the blockade at Charleston Blackbeard by this point, had captured something like fifty ships and he was also charging tolls for other people, ships to make it through pamlico sound, so things, beginning to come to a head and law North Carolina and Charles, even more Pretty. Okay, with the pirating money off the whole situation, right to be a rich Virginia planters and South Carolina planters were not and they appealed to the governor of Virginia Alexander spots, led to do something about it. And he engages Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy to hunt down beard and its not as hard as it sounds. Fine black beard, you know you think it would be difficult to find a pirate re, not if

throwing the biggest pirate party known to man on Ochre Cook Island, which I would kind of like to be invited to. I don't know it might sound were fund than it really was. Drinking womanizing and pirates from all over the world were invited to come and come. They did and made a complete spectacle out of themselves. During this drunken. Pirate shindig Maynard shows up with his sloops intending to kill, sure black beard and the pound. We are aware that Maynard is there, but their trapped this island and a fan bar. So they prepare themselves over the night and while accounts black beard was very calm. His pirates were starting to get worried. Now they were freaking out But he kept drinking, everyone else went out, put sand on the docks and case there was blood, and so blankets and water in case there were fires and began

everyone's kind of expecting teach to try to me. Twenty. Instead, he waits an Maynard's men sixty to, peaches, man advantage here, is mounted weapons on his sleep, which is called the adventure in the morning every kind of expecting teach to try to make a get away instead, wait. An Maynard's men start to approach. The last minute teach just it's off to a little winding channel that which no one also of yards of its right by sandbar and management, I'll get stuck but Maynard. Pretty good. Captain and he tells everybody to start throwing extra supplies overboard, and so they lay my ships enough that their able to sail free and recounts that teach drink

damnation to me and my men, whom he styled cowardly puppies and an insult. I am drawing your new in so doing some when a car. I usually beware, and at this point, blackbirds crew is bombarding Maynard's ship with iron scraps and nails from the guns. Basically, everything they ve got and so Maynard and his men go hide below deck off tricky like and because the ship is okay. After this bombardment there even grenades involved, teach things they're dad and the power Board the ship, Blackbeard included and the sudden Maynard's man, Russia, their lives, try anything after a moment and teaching Maynard, go to a face to face battle that action. Gets written about in the London papers, and it's really looks like it

Being an action movie Maynard story will bear him if it has already made a sort of stance, he shoots beard blacken, survived after being shot and obviously guns are put big hole in you at this and one of Maynard's man jumped then and at the last If this brutal fight between these two men and flashes, act? Beards neck and I don't I did this with a with a blush. Flash neck, but blackberry, personally says: well done, lad It may be apocryphal, but it's still a good deed, but when he died he been shot multiple times and stabbed multiple times and kept fighting until the very very Anne and Manners man actually cut off blackbirds head, which is. Stronger on the ship as a warning to other pirates.

And Maynard searched and searched for blackbirds treasure, as people have been doing for years, but all he found were supplies and letters and during the fight eight of other pirates- were killed. Some wait for mercy somewhere arrested and they were brought to trial and all but two were hanged. So the I didn't get off so easily either, and this was pretty much the end of I receive, or at least the golden age of piracy. That was November tone. Second, seventeen, eighteen and black beard was killed. So, in addition to the legend about the treasure, there's another pretty amazing wine about Blackbeard Skull, so his head is hung up on the ship, but what happens to the skull Maybe it went to the University of Virginia there a legend that says skull was dipped in silver and kept by the university. Where Ternata members were once required to drink from it upon their initiation of a great

and father who went to the universe region. You know I'm starting to wonder at liberty and fraternity as a former member of the Greeks system. I salute you, you ve a great rumour. You can act the visit black beard, island, it was acquired by the Navy Department and then a nineteen. Twenty four was made a earth and breeding ground for wildlife and birds. You can only go there by boat, which I feel is setting quaint now to learn more about pirate from black beard time today check out how pirates work and how that works, dot, com and if you have any suggestions, you love to send us email us at history, podcast at how stuff works, dot com,

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