Who was Blackbeard?
Blackbeard was over six feet tall and often fought wearing a large feathered tricorn hat, and with multiple swords, knives, and pistols on his person. He wore his long black beard in thick dreadlocks and placed burning pieces of hemp into his ears or beneath the brim of his hat in order to intimidate his enemies with his devil-like looks. His pirate flag was a skeleton in a tricorn stabbing a sword into a bleeding heart. Blackbeard is often regarded as the archetypal image of the seafaring pirate.
