For centuries, history books have pointed to North Carolina, or even England, as the birthplace of Blackbeard, the world’s most notorious pirate. But Mike Heitzler, a historian and longtime mayor of ...

xiii, 225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm In 1603 John Ward, a sailor in James I's navy, lead a mass desertion, stole a civilian vessel from Portsmouth Harbour, and defected to the Ottoman ...