Pirates are known to be ruthless and expert criminals. Though, there are many pirates the most famous one of all time is Blackbeard, or Edward Tech. Like many privateers in the 1700s, Blackbeard quit his career in the navy and became a pirate. During this time Blackbeard used his knowledge as a privateer to become a professional at robbing ships as stealing valuable items. During his career he caused sailors to stop sailing and even took over entire cities which caused him to be famous 300 years later.
Edward Tech, or Blackbeard spent most of his life attacking ships along the Outer Banks. As a young adult, Blackbeard was a privateer in Queen Anne’s Naval system. Like many other privatters he cut his naval carrer short and became a pirate. 1716 Blackbeard joined Benjamin Hornigold's crew who was one of the best pirates of
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In 1718 Blackbeard hosted a huge pirate party for multiple days. In 1718 people begun to not want to go to sea anymore because of Blackbeard and this agreed the governor of Virginia and told Lieutenant Robert Maynard hunt him down. When the news was told to Alexander Spots wood, the governor of Virginia, he thought this was the best time to plan an attack against Blackbeard. On November 22,1718 Maynard attacked Blackbeard but Black Beard Caused him to run into a sandbar. When this happened Blackbeard thought everyone on his ship was dead, but those who survived were at the bottom of the ship, and were waiting for the perfect time to have a surprise attack on black beard. When they finally defeated Blackbeard they killed or kept his crew as prisoners. And hung Blackbeard's head on their ship to threated other pirates. It is a myth that today you can see his ghost swimming in the ocean looking for his head. Their attack on Black beard was successful and in the end they beheaded Blackbeard and hung it as warning to other