Captain Blackbeard and his "Revenge of Queen Anne" only appeared in the episode "Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Strange Waves", he is the only pirate in the series who has a real prototype in history, and it can be said that the crazy image of the Pirates of the Caribbean smoking, drinking, and wearing dirty braids is largely borrowed from the famous "Blackbeard" in history.
"Blackbeard"
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Usually people think that the real name of "Blackbeard" is Edward Teach, but when he signed it himself, the surname of Titch has many ways of writing, including "Thatch", "Thach" and other different spellings have been used, not because Edward is illiterate, but pirates like to use pseudonyms in order to avoid insulting the lintel, so the real surname of "Blackbeard" has long been unknown.
Edward Titch was born around 1680 in England, which was far from reaching its heyday in the British Empire, but instead in order to combat the maritime power of other European countries, the British government took the lead in encouraging civilian armed merchant ships to form "privateers" to attack enemy merchant ships, and those plundered wealth could be sold normally with the permission of the British government without any legal risk.
Later, other European countries followed suit, so much so that during that period the Atlantic Ocean was full of "privateers" of various countries.
The number of these "privateers" peaked during the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701, and it can be said that the British privateer fleet made great achievements in this war. But as soon as the war was over, the British government immediately turned its face and began to reorganize the domestic "privateer fleet", gradually withdrawing the privateering permits that had been issued, and the sailors and shipowners who had become accustomed to robbing wealth were no longer willing to return to the difficult sea trade, so a large number of privateers turned back into pirates. It was in this context that Blackbeard began his pirate career.
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Blackbeard started out eating with a privateer named Benjamin Hornigold, but after becoming a pirate under the pressure of the British government, they chose to go to North America to carry out piracy based on the New Providence Island in the Bahamas. It didn't take long for Blackbeard to be Promoted to Benjamin's deputy with great ability and had his own pirate ship.
By the end of 1717, Benjamin Hornigold had been largely overwhelmed within his own pirate group, and everything was in the hands of Blackbeard. Seeing that he could no longer get along, Benjamin Hornigold decided to leave with some of his relatives and return to England to seek government recruitment.
On the other hand, Blackbeard's pirate fleet already had 6 ships of different sizes, more than 200 artillery pieces, thousands of professional pirates to eat with him, and for a time the trade routes in the Caribbean were almost in his hands. It was also at this time that Blackbeard encountered the Queen Anne's Revenge.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "Queen Anne's Revenge"</h1>
The ship was built in 1710 in Bristol, England, which was also home to Blackbeard, so Blackbeard probably heard of her in his early years. However, the Queen Anne's Revenge was originally a merchant ship called the Harmony, which was soon sold to the French as a slave ship for smuggling black slaves.
"The Queen Anne's Revenge"
By December 1717, due to a plague outbreak on board, the Harmony was forced to anchor off the coast of St. Vincent, just when it was spotted by two light pirate ships of Blackbeard. Usually, pirates do not dare to attack when they encounter a large armed merchant ship such as the "Harmony", but "Blackbeard" saw the strange appearance of the "Harmony" and ordered the two ships to attack left and right, and the crew of the "Harmony" had long been unwilling to fight, and surrendered without much resistance.
Soon after, Blackbeard converted the Harmony into a pirate ship, and named it "Queen Anne's Revenge" as the flagship of its fleet, and from then on, "Blackbeard" began to appoint himself as "Commodore", and for a time it was popular in the Caribbean.
Anne was the Queen of England and Scotland, who reigned from 1702 to 1714, and the Empress of the British Empire. During her reign, a war broke out between France and Britain for control of the North American colonies, and many British believed that Britain had suffered a great loss in this war, so they had such a name.
The Queen Anne's Revenge is about 103 feet (31.4 m) long, 25 feet (7.5 m) wide, has a displacement of about 200 tons, carries 40 guns of various types, and can carry up to more than 300 crew members. At such a scale, armed merchant ships were completely incapable of fighting against it, and even a single naval ship might not be able to bargain with her.
However, the Queen Anne's Revenge was only used by Blackbeard for one year. By 1718, as the Royal Navy formed a fleet to clear the harbor, Blackbeard sailed the Queen Anne's Revenge into the harbor for temporary shelter. The idle pirates decided to tilt the hull to clean the hull, but due to lack of operating experience, the main mast of the Queen Anne's Revenge was damaged in the process of tilting, and the hull was also stranded, although "Blackbeard" later tried several times to repair her, but all failed.
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Benjamin Hornigold, who was hollowed out by Blackbeard in the early years, is now pardoned by the British government and has become a "pirate hunter" in cooperation with the Royal Navy, responsible for eliminating pirates in the Caribbean.
After half a year of encirclement, by the end of 1718, Blackbeard had only two light pirate ships and about 200 crew members left. In the middle, he had the opportunity to accept royal amnesty and become a "privateer" and a "pirate hunter", but the "Blackbeard", who had been debauched all his life, gave up such conditions. In the last moments of his life, Blackbeard's few men engaged two Royal Navy heavy cruisers in the bay of Okrakococ Island, during which Blackbeard himself was shot five times and stabbed more than twenty times, his head was cut off on the spot by the Royal Navy men, hung on the mast of the triumphant warship to declare victory, and his body was thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "Blackbeard" in Pirates of the Caribbean</h1>
According to Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Blackbeard did not die in the final battle in the Gulf of Okracoke Island, but was wounded by the Royal Navy and escaped to survive. He then traveled to South America, where he learned witchcraft from the natives and found the Triton, forged in the lost city of Atlantis.
The Sword of Terry
He used Triton's sword and sorcery to resurrect his overtposed Queen Anne's Revenge, and revived a group of zombie crews with dark magic. These zombies can understand Blackbeard's commands and issue orders to more junior sailors, but unlike the human crew, these zombie crews will never betray Blackbeard.
Fifteen years after the end of the third episode of Pirates of the Caribbean, Blackbeard re-emerged as a terrifying force in the Caribbean, hanging a large number of human skulls he had killed on the hull of the Queen Anne's Revenge as a decoration, and using the Byzantine "Greek Fire" as a secret weapon in naval warfare, whether it was a merchant ship on the channel or a pirate, he would attack indiscriminately.
The "Black Pearl" commanded by Barbosa was attacked by the "Queen Anne's Revenge" near the island of Haiti, and under the fierce artillery fire, Captain Barbosa had no choice but to order the "abandonment of the ship", but after this order was issued, the "Black Pearl" temporarily became a masterless ship, and "Blackbeard" immediately captured the "Black Pearl" with the sword of Triton.
Captain Barbosa
The hull of the Black Pearl suddenly became an enemy of Barbosa and his crew, and the ropes on board began to wrap around and attack them, and it was in this situation that Barbosa's right leg was lost.
After driving or killing everyone on the Black Pearl, Blackbeard uses witchcraft to put the Black Pearl into a drifting bottle and store it in the captain's cabin of the Queen Anne's Revenge as part of his weird collection.
Black pearls
Although witchcraft and the sword of Terry made Blackbeard invincible on the ocean, he grew old day by day, and Blackbeard's zombie helmsman now conveyed to him a prophecy, "He will die at the hands of a one-legged man." In order to change his fate, "Blackbeard" decides to find "Fountain of Immortality", so there is a plot at the beginning of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", where Angelica, the daughter of "Blackbeard", lures Jack Sparrow to find "Fountain of Immortality".
Angelica
However, Blackbeard's plan did not succeed, and although they found the Fountain of Immortality, he was stabbed by the "one-legged man" Barbosa with his own triton sword. On his deathbed, he is given a choice to save himself or his daughter Angelica with the spring waters of the Fountain of Immortality, who selfishly chooses to save himself, but is deceived by the trick arranged by Jack Sparrow, and the spring water of the Fountain of Immortality envelops Blackbeard's body, tearing his flesh apart by the torrent, bringing his soul back to Hell.
Death of Blackbeard
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1. In reality, after the death of "Blackbeard" in 1718, the treasure accumulated in his pirate career has never been found, and to this day there are still many treasure hunters trying to find the treasure that "Blackbeard" secretly hid. Later stories such as Treasure Island and Peter Pan were inspired by this historical detail.
Hugh Jackman's version of Blackbeard
2. In an unofficial comic, Blackbeard did die in 1718, but like Henry Morgan, a famous pirate leader in history, his soul was imprisoned in a pendant called "Pirate Heart", but the pirate heart was then destroyed by Will Turner, resulting in the release of the pirates' souls, and Blackbeard reappeared in the world. The manga differs somewhat from the official setting, so it has never been acknowledged.
3. In the final pirate conference of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", the original plan was to let "Blackbeard" appear, and the crew also planned to let "Blackbeard" shoot and kill the French pirate who lost one of the "Eight Holy Relics". However, in the end, this setting was abandoned, and the crew believed that the character should have a decent way to appear.
4. In One Piece, Whitebeard is called "Edward Newgate" and Blackbeard is called "Marshall Titch". The combination of the two names and surnames is Edward Titch, which is a tribute to this famous figure in history.
Marshall Titch
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