Blackbeard Killed at Ocracoke

November 22, 1718

Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy cornered Edward Teach in a shallow inlet of the North Carolina Outer Banks. The pirate fought hand-to-hand on Maynard's deck, taking five musket-balls and twenty cuts before he fell. Maynard hung the severed head from his bowsprit. The Caribbean's most theatrical monster was gone.