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A Bad Day for Pirates – Blackbeard Loses His Head
On this day in 1718, Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, the notorious pirate, lost his head to Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
Maynard’s men emerged, and the battle began. Primary sources disagree about the exact circumstances of Blackbeard’s death. The most quoted account of the following events comes from the Boston News-Letter. (Other, more direct accounts included the letters of Maynard himself and those of his commanding officers.)
Maynard and Teach themselves begun the fight with their swords, Maynard making a thrust, the point of his sword against Teach’s cartridge box, and bent it to the hilt. Teach broke the guard of it, and wounded Maynard’s fingers but did not disable him, whereupon he jumped back and threw away his sword and fired his pistol which wounded Teach. Abraham Demelt struck in between them with his sword and cut Teach’s face; in the interim both companies engaged in Maynard’s sloop. Later during the battle, while Teach was fighting Maynard another soldier came and sliced him in the neck, killing him. Maynard then cut off his head and hung it from his bow.
Teach’s head was placed on a pike or pole on the north shore of the Hampton River in Virginia at a place now called Blackbeard’s Point as a warning to other sailors who thought of taking up piracy.
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