Unaware of the force amassed nearby, Blackbeard, along with about 20 of his men on board the sloop Adventure, spent that evening drinking and carousing with local trader Samuel Odell, who had ...

Blackbeard was killed in Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., after a day-long battle between his ship, the Adventure, and a British sloop. It was a victory for law and order, and it helped discourage piracy in ...

his sloop Adventure was cornered by a joint expedition from the colonies of North Carolina and Virginia. In fierce fighting atop the _Adventure’_s deck, Blackbeard was slain and his head severed ...

Then, Blackbeard launched his cannon, killing 20 men on Maynard's sloop. Blackbeard assumed that the rest of the crew was ...

The story goes that Blackbeard ran aground with Queen Anne’s Revenge and its sister sloop Adventure near what is now Beaufort Inlet. After abandoning the ships, Blackbeard was eventually tracked ...

captain of the sloop Adventure. Edward Thache was one spelling of the real name of Blackbeard, the pirate who sailed the Adventure after he scuttled his more famous ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge.

In mid-November 1718, Maynard found Blackbeard’s sloop of eight guns and a crew of 25 men anchored in the inlet at Ocracoke Island on the outer banks of North Carolina. Maynard was in command of ...