Blackbeard biography videos for kids

Audio Children's story "BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE" is to learn or help sleep.

Edward Teach c. It is not clear what his real name actually was; some historians think that his last name may really have been Thatch. He attacked ships in the Caribbean and the American colonies. About it ran aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina and was abandoned. Blackbeard often fought wearing a big feathered tricorn hat, and with lots of swords , knives , and pistols.

Some pictures show him with lighted rope matches woven into his enormous black beard during battle. The matches burned slowly and gave of lots of smoke. They were designed to make him look frightening.

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He probably got the idea from seeing the burning rope was used to light the gunpowder in cannons and guns. These old fashioned guns were called matchlocks , later a flint was used to make a spark , these were called flintlock guns. No one knows how many wives Blackbeard had. The book A General History of the Pyrates says that he had as many as fourteen wives, but he was not legally married to most of them.

Blackbeard is thought to have been born in Bristol. Teach went to sea when he was very young. At the war's end in , Teach, like many other privateers, turned to piracy. Teach began as a pirate under Benjamin Hornigold. In , Hornigold retired, taking advantage of an amnesty offered to former privateers by the British government.