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The Ferocious Blackbeard
Title: The Ferocious Blackbeard
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1521 | Pages: 6.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Ferocious Blackbeard
The Ferocious Blackbeard
Come all you jolly sailors
You all so stout and brave;
Come hearken and I’ll tell you
What happen’d on the wave
Oh! tis of that bloody Blackbeard
I’m going now for to tell’
And as how by gallant Maynard
He was sent to hell.
Benjamin Franklin, Colonial Williamsburg Press
Historians consider Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, to be the most ruthless pirate of all time. He gained …showed first 75 words of 1521 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1521 total…a booming voice, and his appetites were as ferocious as his temper” (Sherry 234-235). Sherry also stated that, “Many who knew him thought him insane. He had an explosive nature that could lurch from evil irritation to murderous rage in a moment. He enjoyed humiliating other men, and he never hesitated to use his fists to impose discipline on his crew” (Sherry 236).
Would you want to be a pirate aboard one of Blackbeard’s ships?
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