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Facts

Also Known As Edward Teach • Edward Thatch • Edward Thack
Born c.1680 • Bristol? • England
Died November 22, 1718 • Ocracoke Island • North Carolina

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English pirate
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John Avery
British pirate
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Zheng Chenggong
Chinese pirate
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Irish American pirate
Barbarossa
Barbarossa
Ottoman admiral
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Zheng Zhilong
Chinese pirate
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Bartholomew Roberts
Welsh pirate
Rollo
Rollo
duke of Normandy
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Fujiwara Sumitomo
Japanese pirate
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Ernest Renshaw
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Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston
Canadian governor-general
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Cedric Webster Hardwicke
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Sydney Greenstreet
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Enoch Wood
English potter
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
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