Video: '22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard'

(Saturday, November 22, 1718) — English pirate Edward Teach — better known as Blackbeard, an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain’s North American colonies — and several of his crew were killed today by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard during a battle off present-day North Carolina.

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