Israel Hands
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Israel Hands, also known as Basilica Hands, was an 18th-century pirate best known for being second in command to Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. His name serves as the basis for the name of
Hands' and O'Brian's drunken fight on the Hispanola
One More Step, Mr. Hands by N.C. Wyeth, 1911, for Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Blackbeard
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Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, bu
Blackbeard (c. 1736 engraving used to illustrate Johnson's General History)
Edward Teach (Black Beard), Walking the plank, from the "Pirates of the Spanish" series (N19), cigarette card by Allen & Ginter
A contemporary model of Queen Anne's Revenge, displayed in the North Carolina Museum of History.
Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718 (Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1920)