Woodes Rogers
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Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Bahamas from 1718 to 1721 and again from 1728 to 1732. He is remembered as the captain
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Rogers's men search Spanish ladies for their jewels in Guayaquil
Statue of Woodes Rogers outside the British Colonial Hotel, Nassau
Charles Vane
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. He remains one of history's most well-kn
Woodes Rogers
…month into his residence on New Providence, Rogers was faced with a double threat: Vane wrote, threatening to join with Edward Teach (better known as Blackbeard) to retake the island, and Rogers learned that the Spanish also planned to drive the British out of the Bahamas. Rogers's expedition suffered further…
c. 1736 portrait
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)