Blackbeard

===﻿Blackbeard was the famous pirate in our history. His real name was Edward Teach. Some believed that he had up in Bath. Blackbeard was also known to have a sister named Susie. Also Blackbeard was known to have carried six pistols, which he could pull out one after the other to fire six shots less than a minute. North Carolina has dicovered some remains of Blackbeards ship "The Queen Anne's Revenge" in Beaufort harbor. Englishmen got involved in pirating after Queen Anne's War against the Spanish. After that war, the English licensed men as privateers, which meant that they could attack Spanish on their own and take anything they wanted from the Spanish. After the war most privateers couldn't stop raiding ships and began to raid ships of all the nations, even England. The English offered all pirates a pardon. Blackbeard sailed into Pamlico Sound and surrendard to the North Carolina government in 1718. Afterwards he then brought a house in Bath, got married, and supposedly settled down. However, he couldn't stop pirating, and went out again, and then soon was caught plotting his next move. Blacbeard had lost his head literally and died with twenty-three wounds. ===