Bonnet managed to escape, but was recaptured after a few weeks on the lam, and taken to Charleston. It did not.ДЄ few weeks later, a British naval expedition came across Bonnet at anchor in the Cape Fear River estuary, and after a fight, captured him and his crew. Hapless as ever, he thought that adopting the alias вЂњCaptain ThomasвЂќ and changing the name of his ship to Royal James would suffice to mask his identity. However, he decided to return to piracy in July of 1718. Not long after falling in with Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet accepted a royal pardon and a royal commission to go privateering against Spanish shipping. The ending of StedeвЂ™s BonnetвЂ™s piratical career and life. He put up a fierce fight before he finally went down on the deck of his ship, after taking five bullets and over twenty sword cuts. Blackbeard was outnumbered, as most of his men were ashore at the time, but he refused to surrender. Led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard, the expedition tracked Blackbeard, and found him on November 22 nd, 1718, anchored at Oracoke Island, off North Carolina. I struck me as extremely cool and dramatic and kinda funny, too, how he comes out really tired. So VirginiaвЂ™s governor ordered an expedition to hunt him down. One of the times when I was watching On Stranger Tides, I kept rewinding and replaying the part he enters the movie. He then formed a pirate alliance, and used it to commit his most notorious act: a successful blockade of Charleston, South Carolina, holding the city hostage until he was paid a ransom.Д«lackbeard accepted a royal pardon in 1718, but soon reneged and returned to piracy. Soon thereafter, he seized a French ship, remodeled and equipped it with 40 cannons, renamed her Queen AnneвЂ™s Revenge, and made her his flagship. Hornigold retired from piracy in 1717, but Blackbeard continued independently on his own. BlackbeardвЂ™s final battle, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

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