Blackbeard has become a common name name for a pirate in all children's stories. The name is well known, but not many people know the true story.
There are many and plays that have been made about Blackbeard the pirate. These are just a couple of them "Blackbeard or The Captive Princess " first performed on the London stage in 1798 and "Blackbeard the pirate" film from 1952. There's also a Disney movie called "Blackbeard's Ghost".
There are a few children's books which which use pirates which have names like Blackbeard. One is by Gareth Nix. His book is called "Blackbread the Pirate."
It's about a young boy who is told by his mother to bring some rental videos back to the store. On the way he is faced by some pirates who are rats, which is pun to the word pirate.
They steal the videos and are taking them away to copy the pictures, which is another pun on the word piracy.
The royal navy of rats come to help the boy and they take him into a parallel universe, where Blackbread the pirate rat is to be found.
Blackbread uses a piece of Blackbread as a weapon which makes him indestructible and feared by every rat. This must by why he got his reputable name.
The young boy then uses a piece of cheese to defeat the bread. His plan is that cheese and bread go together and the bread will throw itself at the cheese no matter how hard Blackbread the pirat resists.
The boy defeats the most fearsome pirate and is taken home before the time that he left.
This story shows a lot of imagination and how a young boy goes on an adventure ,defeats a pirate and is automatically whisked back home after his adventure.
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Edward Teach (1680-1718)
Edward Teach was an English privateer under a commission from Queen to capture Spanish ships during the war of the Spanish Succession. Once privateers were no longer needed he turned to piracy serving under the pirate Benjamin Hornigold.
While Teach was serving Hornigold, Hornigold's crew captured a French slave ship called La Concorde. Hornigold made appointed Teach as captain of that ship. Teach renamed the ship Queen Anne's Revenge. The ship originally held 20 cannons, but Teach added 20 more to make it a ship of 40 cannons. He also commanded two other ships.
Hornigold accepted a pardon from the British Government and went into retirement. After this Teaches reputation grew. He was intolerably cruel and preyed on many a ship. One thing that made home even more notorious was when he got in a duel with the British man of war the HMS Scarborough.
The name Edward Teach eventually disappeared and he was soon known as the pirate Blackbeard. This is because he had a beard which covered his face, he tied ribbons in it and also was known to burn incense in his beard.
The Legend of Blackbeard
Blackbeard had thirteen wives and his last wife was Mary Ormond. So there is no doubt that he was a man ,but he had become so fierce that people said he came from the pit's of hell themselves. along with his black beard he also had a reputation for carrying more than a few pistols and knives in battle. he commanded a fleet of at least twenty ships. the flag which is shown above definitely meant that he and his crew would show no mercy. anybody who saw the flag would know that it was Blackbeard's ship.One legend say's he shot his own first mate, because if he did not they may have forgotten who he really was.
The most famous legend of Blackbeard's life was his death. Blackbeard and his men were off the shores of Carolina drinking when Maynard and his crew ambushed them from a small sloop. the other men that were hired to capture Blackbeard were caught up on shore because the tides pulled them in. Maynard and his men boarded Blackbeards ship which was crewed by nine men. they caught Blackbeard and his men by surprise but the men began to fight. Maynards men shot Blackbeard twenty times but he would not die. finally one of Maynards crew was able to cut Blackbeards head off. Blackberds body then ran and jumped overboard and swam around the ship three times. Manard tied Blackbeards head to the front of the ship as a prize.
Divers have supposably found Blackbeards ship yet no one has found his tressure buried somewhere in the Carolinas. Blackbeard refused to tell anyone where it was. He said "Only the Devil himself knows where it is.
