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The Notorious Pirate Blackbeard

Depiction of Blackbeard Blackbeard is a name that invokes fear from all. Children grow up hearing the stories and watching the films of his overall greatness. However, Blackbeard's early life is still shrouded in a vast amount of mystery. As he continued to grow older, he took part in a vast number of sea adventures Legally named Edward Teach, many say Blackbeard was a sailor from the English port of Bristol who fought in the War of Spanish Succession. Around this time, he became unemployed in the Caribbean. He then headed to Nassau’s forbidden harbor and looked to become a pirate. In the spring of 1717, he sailed as second-in-command to the pirate captain Ben Hornigold. They cruised America's East Coast, seizing, and plundering 8 merchant ships. Of his famous encounters, his interaction with Stede Bonnet, also known as the “Gentleman Pirate”, was incredibly important, since he was able to take control of Bonnet’s ship, “The Revenge”. After this encounter, he then cont

The Good of the Bad

A pirate marooned The word t orture has the capability to spark fear into the eyes of many. It is the action of inflicting extreme pain on another as punishment for the purpose of gaining something out of it. Pirates are the masters at coming up with various methods of torture in order to cause fear in their victims or to acquire information from their victims. The several techniques of torture they used varied in levels of efficiency. Pirates used a copious amount of methods for torturing and punishing their victims throughout history, but each method had different effects. Throughout the many written books on pirate, a large quantity of them describe the evils the pirates have done via the use of torture and punishments. For example, in the book Under the Black Flag it states,” ‘Low cut off the said Master’s lips and broiled them before his face, and afterwards murdered the whole crew being thirty two persons’.” (Cordingly 130). To give background knowledge, Governor

Encounter with Mary Reed

I slowly opened my eyes looked around the room, disoriented and dazed from my daily afternoon nap. As I rubbed my eyes and tried to wake myself up a bit, I realized that something was off. Maybe it was the fact that I slept before eating or that my phone had disappeared from my pocket. Maybe it was the fact that there was jewelry, gold, and swords scattered all around my room. Maybe it was the fact that what should be my room looked more like a room from the 1700s. Suddenly, I realized where I was. My entire body was frozen with fear. My mind was racing with a million questions on what was happening to me and why I was here, but the biggest question I had was why I was dressed like one of Christopher Columbus’ crew members. As I began to inspect the room in hopes of finding answers to my questions, loud, English-like yelling erupted from the outside of the room. I made my way towards the door, curious as to what was going outside. As my hand reached for th

Henry Morgan

People say that history is always written by the winners. Examples of significant winners such as Alexander The Great who remains known as an amazing leader and hero despite the thousands of lives he claimed and horrendous acts he partook in. When two opposing conceptions battle one another, the one that comes out victorious is usually glorified and remembered while the conquered side is belittled. This is why we may never know the truth behind an enormous amount of important events or people. Henry Morgan would be a victim of this same saying being a part of a vast variety of facts and fictions detailing his background. In both books “Buccaneers and Pirates” and “Under the Black Flag”, his origins are spoken with differing ideas causing conflict with each other. The novel “Buccaneers and Pirates” characterizes Henry Morgan’s parents as farmers, but he despised that type of lifestyle with such hate he went off on his own to pursue an alternative path of becoming a sailor. On the con