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Default Round On-- the Battle of Orcacoke Inlet Nov. 22, 1718.
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On an alpaca blanket stolen from a rich merchant captain, Blackbeard awakened on his last day on earth and first in hell to the sound of round shot from one of his cannon and a ship that stunk of gunpowder. Adventure had fired at a rowboat sent from two unknown sloops (the Ranger and the Jane) flying Royal Naval colors. Blackbeard surmised that the rowboat had been taking soundings so that the sloops could approach closer to Blackbeard's ship without running aground. He could also see no cannon on either sloop. Since he had been in these waters at least six months he knew their depth very well and where the shoals were. He knew he had the upper hand. Neither was Blackbeard going to run despite his crew of only eighteen. He had a warrior's ethic taken straight out of the books of Homer which he read often.

Blackbeard yelled at the ships loudly: "Damn you for villains, who are you? And from whence come you?"

"You may see by our colors we are no pirates," Lt. Robert Maynard responded from the small sloop The Jane.

"Send your boat on board so that I might see who you are," demanded Blackbeard.

Maynard answered: "I cannot spare my boat, but I will come aboard you as soon as I can with my sloop."

Blackbeard knew he was about to be attacked by the Royal Naval sloops so taking up a bowl of liquor saluted them with: "Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarter or take any from you."

This got the response of Maynard of: "I expect no quarter from you, nor shall I give any."

Blackbeard the Pirate: A Reappraisal of His Life and Times, Robert E. Lee, 1974, p 118 and other sources.
Since the Royal Navy's rowboat had not had time to do soundings because of The Adventure's roundshot, both the Jane and the Ranger suffered a mishap that is a felony in seamanship. Both ran aground and gave Blackbeard's gunner Philip Morton a perfect target for his eight cannon. Blackbeard swung his cannon to the side of the ship facing the vixen the Jane and the Ranger and opened up with all eight cannons blazing. At least, twenty eight men of Lt. Maynard's men lay dying or dead on his two sloops. Armless, headless, legless and riddled with splinters from the ships' wood broken by the very well aimed cannon. Unfortunately for Blackbeard pushing all the cannon to on side on the Adventure propelled his ship onto the shore on the other side of from where the blast was fired. Now there were three sloops stranded on Ocracoke Inlet.

Blackbeard the Pirate toy-- http://www.aardvarkstozebras.com/Cap.../saf850029.htm
Philip Morton, gunner toy-- http://www.aardvarkstozebras.com/Gun.../saf850529.htm