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 ...

For centuries, history books have pointed to North Carolina, or even England, as the birthplace of Blackbeard, the world’s ...