Teach's Hole
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Anchorage of Blackbeard, AKA Edward Teach, who made his home in Bath, N.C. and pillaged the Caribbean and Southern colonial American coast. This is where he lost his head in a dramatic sea battle with the British Navy led by officer Robert Maynerd on November 22, 1718, in which he incurred 5 pistol shots and no less than 27 severe cuts in various parts of his body before being brought down.
Blackbeard only had a skeleton crew of eighteen that day, who were mostly drunk and caught by surprise(it was early.) He and his crew held off a far superior force of the British Navy sent from Virginia--sent perhaps in violation of his royal pardon and with illegal and political reasons--but the "courageous brute" and his crew lost in the end.(by various accounts, Blackbeard had inflicted casualties at about a 3:1 ratio on the attacking British marines and sailors.) He supposedly had intentions of forming a piratical colony and fortress on Ocracoke, like those on Tortuga and New Providence Is.
Blackbeard only had a skeleton crew of eighteen that day, who were mostly drunk and caught by surprise(it was early.) He and his crew held off a far superior force of the British Navy sent from Virginia--sent perhaps in violation of his royal pardon and with illegal and political reasons--but the "courageous brute" and his crew lost in the end.(by various accounts, Blackbeard had inflicted casualties at about a 3:1 ratio on the attacking British marines and sailors.) He supposedly had intentions of forming a piratical colony and fortress on Ocracoke, like those on Tortuga and New Providence Is.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard
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Coordinates: 35°5'48"N 75°59'46"W
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