The Head on the Bowsprit

The Age of Sail · 22 November 1718

The Head on the Bowsprit

Blackbeard’s two-year career ends in a boarding trap in a Carolina inlet

Edward Teach anchored for the night in Ocracoke Inlet on the North Carolina coast, and by first light on 22 November 1718 two small sloops had crept in after him.

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