How did Blackbeard the pirate die?

Answer 1

The governor of Virginia, Alexander Spotswood, finally took drasitic actions against the pirate captain, Blackbeard, who so terrorized the coast. Spotswood sent out Leutenant Maynard to take down Blackbeard once and for all. Spotswood and his crew caught Blackbeard off guard on the morning of November 22, 1718. The pirate captain and his crew believe they were safe and undiscovered and had been drinking the night before. They were still drunk, hungover, and exhausted the next moring when the privateers approached them. This was ultimately their downfall. The pirates, who were more confident than they should have been at the time, accidentally let Maynards's crew get the best of them and they were boarded. The two crews engaged in hand-to-hand combat in one of the most romantic, idealized on-board pirate fights in history. Blackbeard received (according to the Historie of the Pyrates by Charles Johnson) exactly 20 blade wounds and 5 shots before his finally fell dead, Maynard having fired the final shot. Maynard cut of the head of the fallen pirate and hung it from the boltsprit, then tossed the body overboard, and he was hanged, and they cut of the head.

Answer 2

Blackbeard's men hurled grenades onto the seemingly deserted navy sloop. The pirates boarded the ship easily. Suddenly, Maynard's men rushed the deck, firing pistols and wielding swords. The pirates turned around, completely stunned-they had been tricked into thinking the navy crew was dead. A battle began. Screams and cries of pain filled the air.

Pistol in one hand, cutlass in the other, Blackbeard came face-to-face with Maynard. They both fired pistols. Blackbeard missed. Maynard hit his mark.

Shot, Blackbeard still managed to swing his cutlass and snap off Maynard's sword blade. Maynard drew back. Blackbeard raised his arm for a finishing blow. Just in time, a navy seaman came up from behind Blackbeard and slashed his throat.

AS A WARNING TO OTHER PIRATES, Blackbeard's head was cut off and suspended from the bow of Maynard's sloop. Maynard searched for Blackbeard's treasure but found only supplies and letters. When Blackbeard died, the secret of his treasure died, too-if indeed he ever had one.

He died around the age of 38.