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Also known as Edward Thatch, Edward Teach, Captain Blackbeard, Capt. 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

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Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and along the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies in the early 1700s. He matters historically because he became one of the most famous pirates of the era, operating from bases like New Providence in the Bahamas and conducting numerous acts of piracy alongside experienced captains like Benjamin Hornigold.

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Pirate.birth_name: Edward Teach
Pirate.death_cause: Killed in action (stab wounds and gunshot wounds)
Pirate.image: Edward Teach Commonly Call'd Black Beard (bw) (cropped).jpg
Pirate.caption: Blackbeard ( engraving used to illustrate Johnson's General History)
Pirate.nickname: Blackbeard
Pirate.birth_place: (presumed) Bristol, England
Pirate.death_place: Ocracoke, North Carolina, British America
Pirate.serviceyears: 1716–1718
Pirate.rank: Captain
Pirate.commands: ''Queen Anne's Revenge, Adventure''
Pirate.battles: Battle of Ocracoke

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Instance of: human
Given name: Edward
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Place of birth: Bristol
Place of death: Ocracoke
Occupation: pirate
Languages spoken: English language
Conflict: War of the Spanish Succession
Military rank: captain
Image: Blackbeard the Pirate.jpg
Work location: Caribbean Sea

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Commons category: Blackbeard
date of death: 1718-11-22
date of birth: 1680-01-01
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
name in native language: Edward Thatch
cause of death: decapitation
present in work: Our Flag Means Death
different from: Blackbeard
start of work period: 1716-00-00
end of work period: 1718-00-00

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