Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 637115)

Eleven men, including Blackbeard, boarded the Jane as soon as they could using grappling hooks. Most of these men had very rummy eyes according to the Jane's pilot William Butler. As soon as they were on board, Butler let lose the dogs of war by putting into motion the plan enacted by Lt. Maynard. Instead of facing "three or four" stunned crewmen as Blackbeard expected, a dozen men leaped up from the hold from the two ladders set up before. Blackbeard and his men cut a huge swarth though the Royal Naval massed men but were soon cut down from behind and/or outflanked. Blackbeard had had twenty serious sword wounds and five pistol bullets in his corpse when they examined him later. After they took off Blackbeard's head, many men took off pieces of his beard to place in lockets for souvenirs. Unfortunately for Lt. Maynard, Blackbeard had another ace up his sleeve in the person of Black Caesar one of his most trusted men who remained on the Adventure biding his time to put Blackbeard's revenge in motion. The Legends Of Black Caesar - Sun Sentinel Blackbeard and Black Pirates | Adventures in North Carolina Culture Out of Africa: Pirates, slaves and the black experience | Science Buzz The African American Experience

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 637795)

On board the Adventure, two of Blackbeard's drinking buddies were trying to sleep off weeks of partying but were awakened by the cannon and pistol blasts between intermittent sleep. They got wind of Black Caesar's intention of lighting up the sloop's powder supply and drunkenly working together managed to tackle the hardly dainty Caesar and then sat on him until Maynard's men could help them restrain the giant. Unfortunately, one of the Royal Naval men while on The Adventure wearing some of the pirate souvenirs was shot by another sailor from the Ranger whose men had finally managed to get it dislodged from the sandbar. So strum the hands of fate and acted as thief on Blackbeard's grand design. Legend had it that Blackbeard had one last trick to play about how his myth would later be governed. When they cut off his head they eventually threw his body overboard where it proceeded to swim around the Jane three times and then sank in Orcacoke Inlet. Blackbeard Legends - Myths and Facts about Blackbeard

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 638406)

Wednesday's Jumble answers:

Proven.
Clout.
Donkey.
Quilt.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 638411)

Virginia Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood had given the men he had sent to hunt down Blackbeard strict instructions to look for any documents showing that the notorious pirate had clout over NC Governor Charles Eden. Spotswood knew his expedition into North Carolina was illegal and was trying to find some evidence to bolster his case when the Crown's representatives came asking tough questions. His men while searching on board the Adventure found a letter written by Secretary of the Colony of NC, Tobias Knight, to Blackbeard under a quilt that would make quite a donkey of Mr. Knight in the eyes of the Crown but would hardly have said to have proven the need for Spotswood's invasion of another colony.

Colonel Thomas Powell's letter about the Spotswood invasion to Governor Charles Eden. Documenting the American South: Colonial and State Records of North Carolina

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 638783)

Once upon a time, in a far away land, donkeys were proven to be a reliable mode of transportation. There was a quiltwork of donkey trails and if you were the owner of a donkey you had clout.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 638957)

Sounds like something that probably happened.

Then I walked up the street, gazing about till near the market-house I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker’s he directed me to, in Secondstreet, and ask’d for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I made him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surpriz’d at the quantity, but took it, and, having no room in my pockets, walk’d off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. Thus I went up Market-street as far as Fourth-street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife’s father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then I turned and went down Chestnut-street and part of Walnut-street, eating my roll all the way, and, corning round, found myself again at Market-street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 639981)

Sunday's Jumble answers from the Villages Daily Sun:

Dampen.
Nudism.
Brawl.
Feign.

Benjamin Franklin I imagine must have come up with ways to beat the boredom of many a Quaker meeting he had to endure those first years in Philadelphia so that these would not dampen his free spirit. He was known for his "air baths" of sitting in front of a window naked. He was one of the first advocates of nudism. He was not one to feign the morality of his contemporaries nor however did he brawl with their beliefs for the most part. "If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"-- Ben Franklin http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/inventions.htm

http://benjaminfranklinbio.com/benja...-religion/145/