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Summary of Blackbeard

No other pirate in history ever reached the level of infamy achieved by Edward Teach,  aka . Despite being  dead for over three hundred years,  

The memory of  is still very much alive in modern popular culture. But what about the man behind the beard?

It is generally thought that Edward was born around 1680, somewhere around Bristol,  England. As was customary for pirates, Edward Teach may have been an assumed name,  and many surname variations are recorded,  including Thack, Tack, and Teach.

Historian Colin Woodward is adamant that he went by Thatch and that an error by a newspaper report in the Boston News-Letter started the misnomer that he was known as Teach.

When researching Blackbeard,  Woodward found that accounts in which he was referred to as Edward Thatch came from those who knew him. Spelling had yet to be standardized, and Michael Blackbeard - YouTube HOVO