Enlightenment · North America · War

1717

Blackbeard Captures La Concorde

November 22, 1717

Off St. Vincent, Edward Teach seized a French slave ship of forty guns and renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge. For two years his black flag, his smoking beard, his lit fuses under his hat, and his ferocious theatricality terrorized the Caribbean and Carolina coast. The Golden Age of piracy had its face.

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Before and after in North America

Before: July 31, 1715: Spanish Treasure Fleet Wrecked
After: May 7, 1718: New Orleans Founded

Before and after in War

Before: August 5, 1716: Battle of Petrovaradin
After: November 22, 1718: Blackbeard Killed at Ocracoke

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.