Editing Blackbeard (section)

== About ==
He usually used to light his black beard with fuses so he would appear more monstrous to those he faced and make him more feared. He was also known to shoot his crew on occasion, which helped lead to his downfall. Blackbeard was notorious for kidnapping people, he was ruthless, selfish, and greedy, to the point where towards the end he started to kill off part his crew to increase his share of the plunder. During his life, Blackbeard had around fourteen different wives.

Blackbeard was also a big man, and was said to be strong. It was claimed he was strong enough to chop straight through a man with one swipe of his sword. He also carried multiple pistols at once, mostly down to the unreliability of guns at the time.

Blackbeard also spent a lot of his reign spreading stories of his own cruelty around to make it easier for him to defeat others. Exactly how true these stories are is unknown, as the majority of what he told was said for the purpose of scaring others. Likewise, he never killed a single person he kidnapped, although on one occasion he cut a man's arm when he refused to give him a ring he was wearing.

After the Royal Navy stormed his ship, the ''Queen Anne<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Revenge'', Blackbeard's crew was already depleted, and many of them were drunk. Nevertheless, a battle raged. Blackbeard was shot and stabbed multiple times before he eventually died, the Navy decapitated his dead body, hung his head on the bowsprit of the boat and tossed the body into the sea.