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ON THIS DAY DECEMBER 5

1717 English pirate Blackbeard (William Teach) ransacks the merchant sloop Margaret and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock, prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides the first record of Blackbeard’s appearance, and the source for his

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