Category: Golden Age of Piracy

• On December 5, 1717, Notorious Pirate Blackbeard Ransacks the “Margaret.”

  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.”

  December 5, 2024

  1700s, Blackbeard, Captain Charles Johnson, Captain Henry Bostock, Caribbean Sea, Daniel Defoe, Edward Teach, event & history, Golden Age of Piracy, History Daily, Pirates, The “Margaret”

  1700s, Blackbeard, Captain Charles Johnson, Captain Henry Bostock, Caribbean Sea, Daniel Defoe, Edward Teach, event & history, Golden Age of Piracy, History Daily, Pirates, The “Margaret”