Blackbeard

Meet Captain Edward Teach, more commonly known as Blackbeard!

- Jack Sparrow

Edward Teach was a notorious English Pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy. Born in Bristol in 1660, Teach began his sailing career in 1712 by attacking French Ships. However, when the war ended in 1713, he carried on attacking and robbing Ships. Earning himself the nickname of 'Blackbeard', Teach, during the next two years, fought a long-running duel with the British Man-O-War HMS Scarborough, which added his notorioty, and in 1718, having previously obtained captainage of Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship, along with 3 others, attacked Charlestown, South Carolina, and forced the mayor to give Blackbeard all sorts of stuff in plunder. In one year, Blackbeard amassed a huge fortune by stealing barrels of sugar and barrels of cloth. He is said to have landed outside the English city of Portsmouth with a sizeable crew and buried some real treasure, which has still never been found. His last battle came in 1718. Blackbeard had become so notorious that Lieutenant Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, was sent by his captain on behalf of the govoner, to track down Blackbeard. He attacked at dawn. Blackbeard thought Maynard had only a few sailors, so he jumped aboard Maynard's ship. In hand to hand fighting with Maynard, Blackbeard recived 5 gunshot wounds and at least 20 sword wounds before he fell. His head was cut off and hung from Maynard's bow, and his body thrown overboard and presumeably swam 3 times round Maynard's ship before sinking. His spirit became imprisoned in the Buccaneer's Heart, and was ultimately freed when Will Turner smashed the object.