The pirates delivered a devastating round of cannonballs into the side of the Ranger, shattering wood and bone in an instant. Unaware of the danger lurking belowdecks of the pirate ship, the navy forces aboard the Ranger pulled their vessel alongside the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Inside the magazine, there was a strange sense of shelter, and he felt ready to blow them all to kingdom come rather than face a capture and a trial. The man was under orders to touch the candle to a powder keg if things did not go the pirate's way. Breaking the first rule of mariners and their wooden world, he sat next to an open flame. In the belly of the pirate vessel, a Black man “bred up” by Blackbeard sat, listening intently to the scuffling and echoes of screams above his head.
Up on deck of the infamous Queen Anne's Revenge, the air was thick with smoke from makeshift molotov cocktails the pirates had hurled at their pursuers, sailors from the British navy spearheaded by the young and true-hearted Lieutenant Maynard. The battle was fevered, clawing, and the pirates fought dirty. On the morning of Blackbeard's last fight, the water was grey and deathly still.
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