Sunday, November 28, 2010

Seafaring Sunday: Beginning Of A Legend

November 22, 1718: Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, is killed via gunshot off North Carolina's Ocracoke Island by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard. Maynard was sent by the Governor of Virginia to apprehend or kill Teach at sea or by land. Teach's head was chopped off and hung from the bowsprit of Maynard's ship for the return voyage to Virginia.

Pictured: Blackbeard in Smoke and Fire by R. Schoonover
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3 comments:

  1. Timmy!November 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM

    Ahoy, Pauline! "killed via gunshot"... amoungst various other wounds...Cool painting too. Timmy likee.

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  2. Timmy!November 28, 2010 at 6:02 PM

    Oh, and I like your "Piratical Fact of the Week" as well, Pirate Queen.

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  3. PaulineNovember 28, 2010 at 8:09 PM

    Ahoy, Timmy and thankee! I love that painting if I'm honest but I messed up: the artist is E.F. Schoonover...

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