Blackbeard

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 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. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

English pirate

English pirate (1680–1719)

early 18th-century Barbadian pirate

pirate Blackbeard's ship

republic on the New Providence island in the Bahamas ruled by pirates between 1706–1718

Royal Navy officer (1684-1751)

18th-century pirate

National Historic Landmark in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

island in British Virgin Islands

18th-century African pirate

island in British Virgin Islands