Teach began as a pirate under Benjamin Hornigold. At the war's end in 1713, Teach, like many other privateers, turned to piracy. He served on an English ship in the War of the Spanish Succession, privateering in the Spanish West Indies and along the Spanish Main. Teach (or Thatch) went to sea at an early age. He is thought to have been born in Bristol, but some writers claim New York, California, Philadelphia, or even Denmark as his home.
Nevertheless, he is referred to in some documents as Edward Thatch or even Edward Drummond. īlackbeard's real name is not definitely known, though he was generally called Edward Teach. This image, which he cultivated, has made him the premier image of the seafaring pirate. Accounts of people who saw him fighting say that they thought he "looked like the devil " with his fearsome face and the smoke cloud around his head. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates that he had hemp and lighted matches woven into his enormous black beard during battle. 1790), in Bath.īlackbeard often fought, or simply showed himself, wearing a big feathered tricorn, and having multiple swords, knives, and pistols at his disposal. A painting of him hangs in Van Der Veer House (ce.
His last wife was Mary Ormond (or Ormand) of Bath, North Carolina, to whom he was married for only a short while. The General History claims that he had as many as fourteen wives, most of them common-law, but documentation is lacking. His best known vessel was the Queen Anne's Revenge, which is believed to have run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina in 1718. 1680 – November 22, 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 18th century, a period of time referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy.
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