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Edward (“Blackbeard”) died 1718, English pirate and privateer in the Americas.
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Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph D. Paine
True to His Home Hezekiah Butterworth
Benjamin Franklin, A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago John S. C. Abbott
The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Walter Thornbury
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Various
verb teaches, teaching, taught
(transitive; may take a clause as object or an infinitive) often foll by how. to help to learn; tell or show (how): to teach someone to paint, to teach someone how to paint
to give instruction or lessons in (a subject) to (a person or animal): to teach French, to teach children, she teaches
(transitive; may take a clause as object or an infinitive) to cause to learn or understand: experience taught him that he could not be a journalist
(informal) Also teach someone a lesson. to cause (someone) to suffer the unpleasant consequences of some action or behaviour
noun
Edward, known as Blackbeard. died 1718, English pirate, active in the West Indies and on the Atlantic coast of North America
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