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Blackbeard’s real name was Edward Teach (possibly born Edward Drummond) and he really only careered as a pirate for two years from 1716-1718, when he was killed in a pretty extreme final battle.
Legend has it he was shot five time and slashed 20 or more times before he finally fell and then after being beheaded his body ran wildly around the deck before it jumped overboard. Teach’s head was hung from the bow of Robert Maynard’s ship after he was killed.
Before his death, Blackbeard’s favorite drink was Rum and Gunpowder.
He sailed a 40gun Concorde called “The Queens Revenge” the vessel was originally built as a slaver so it was large and menacing, the ship was eventually run aground (allegedly Teach did this intentionally in order to downsize his crew, which he marooned)
The Queens Revenge wreck was eventually discovered in 1996 in a bay in North Carolina.
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