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The Age of Pirates | Blackbeard and the Flying Gang | 3
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Captain Hornigold and Edward Thatch
Edward Thatch was a captain in the pirate crew of Captain Hornigold. The two captains and their flying gang plundered any merchant ships they could find around the Bahamas. In 1716 Thatch and Hornigold had aimed their sloop's north toward the American colonies. They attacked ships and supply routes while making their way up to Virginia. Along the way they encountered another pirate vessel one that gave itself up without a fight Called the revenge she was a slim 60-tonne sloop from Barbados. She carried scars along her hull from a disastrous battleshe'd narrowly escaped. Her captain was 29 year old steed bonnet known as the gentleman pirate Bonnet. He
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