Teach loaded it with 40 canons and renamed it the ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge’. It wasn’t long before Teach captured the enormous French slaving ship ‘La Concorde’ off the coast of Saint Vincent. Read more about: Treasure Hunting The 5 most ruthless pirates from the Golden Age of Piracy After many successful acts of piracy together, Hornigold decided to retire towards the end of 1717, leaving Teach to go it alone. Teach’s first appearance in the official records came in December 1716, when he’s documented as being in charge of a sloop (a sailing boat with just a single mast and headsail) in the crew of English pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold. In a nutshell, they were pirates with papers. Privateers were private individuals or ships who were commissioned by governments to legally carry out acts of war. Teach served as a privateer during Queen Anne’s War, the North American theatre of the War of the Spanish Succession. It’s presumed he was born in England, probably Bristol around the 1680s, making him around 35-40 years old when he died on 22nd November 1718. Very little is known of Blackbeard’s early years, although we do know his real name was Edward Teach (alternatively spelt Edward Thatch). Read more about: Adventurers The rise and fall of Blackbeard
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