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Image: Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, originally from an engraving by Benjamin Cole in A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (1724).
On December 5, 1717, Notorious Pirate Blackbeard Ransacks the “Margaret.”
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