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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725;62***2

Blackbeard needed to rearm his flotilla's ships because of the fury of many Puritan and other religious figures towards pirates after they saw the Wrath of God in the nor'eastern that sunk Whyday Gally and Mary Anne on April 26, 1717. This arms race as he saw it would give him more leeway to tangle with larger ships and not receive the awful beating that Captain Stedt Bonnet had taken after his rash decision to take on a Spanish man-of-war. This was Bonnet's hubris alone as he did this before meeting Blackbeard and had lost many men and been very badly wounded himself while doing so. Blackbeard was a very educated man and was reading a lot of military history looking for ideas on new weapons to use and came up with a crude grenade as well as stuffing his cannons with many more missiles than just cannon balls. Blackbeard terrorized the high seas with scrap iron missiles Whydah Gally - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ships - Man-O-War Tour the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck in Wilmington, North Carolina - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

The sad story of Captain David Harriot was one many preachers depicted in their purge of people's fascination with pirates. Captain Harriot had a sloop named Adventure out of Jamaica and when he pulled into the harbor of Turneffe Atoll off of Belize to fill his casks with fresh water he found he had floated into a flotilla of pirates. Rather than having his pants shot off by pirates, he quickly surrendered and he and his men were forced to become pirates or face being marooned on Turneffe. Harriot became a pirate and soon was captured by Cape Fear vigilantes and later killed after escaping from custody of law enforcement authorities. http://johnnydepp-zone.com/boards/vi...?f=103&t=51098