The days until Skullduggery Island becomes available to everyone are quickly ticking down. To help celebrate, I’ve been posting a little bit about famous real pirates in history. Today, we’ll look at one of the most fearsome pirates of all, the notorious Captain Blackbeard.
Born Edward Teach, Blackbeard originally came from Bristol, England. He was a successful and well-known pirate who operated throughout the West Indes and Americas in the early 1700s. He was only active as a pirate for just three years, but in that time he terrorized the waters of the Caribbean and became much-feared.
His first and most famous ship was named the Queen Anne’s Revenge, and this was a name he gave the ship after capturing it from a French crew. He equipped it with 40 guns, making it a dangerous and formidable ship. I bet he could have even taken on Captain Crawfish’s warship in Skullduggery Island. As it is, Blackbeard defeated many large merchant ships and racked up a lot of plunder in just a few short months while active on the high seas.
Blackbeard was of course well known for his ragged and scary appearance, most notably his long black beard. It is said that many sailors who saw him became so afraid that they refused to fight, making things very easy for Blackbeard and his pirate crew.
Blackbeard was finally killed in a huge battle in 1718 while commanding a new ship named the Adventure. While boarding a ship captained by the pirate hunter Lt. Maynard, Blackbeard and his men were surprised by several sailors who had hidden below decks. In the ensuing battle, Blackbeard was shot several times. His head was cut off and hung from the sails of the ship to serve as a warning to other pirates.
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FIRST 2 COMMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN UR FACES!!!!!!!!!!!JK
woow,thats cool i never knew blackbeard only was a pirate for 3 years.!_! !_!
eww that’s disgusting about the head part
i also learned he put his beard on fire in battles to scare people!:) 2nd comment!
i cant wait for blackbeard boy to comment.
He also had this nasty mixture of rum and gunpowder that he drank. Blah! That made him go crazy in battle, which acutally helped. And no, just because my name has the word “Blackbeard” in it does not make me a descendant of him.
Why is everyone gloating about being the first to comment or the second to comment? It makes no sense.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY “IM HAPPY”! How old are you?
THats kinda scary at the end and cruel.
And blackbeard boy is right.
It doenst make any sense to be the first or second to comment
Black beard was problebly drunk to.
he also put candles in his beard to look even scarier! CREEPY!
i’m not sure if this comment was already posted by me, but i hate it when people copy someone else’s comment, and make it their own? it’s stupid and annoying. do you think i want to see the same comment over and over? uhu, ya, no, i don’t.
what is your name in any game anyone
}:)
im not givin’ names to you happy leopard (fu%k off!).
I have let’s see um… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 about 10 characters who know maybe more…
im gust saying .
That’s really gross that they hung his head from the sails.
I know this is COMPLETELY unrelated to this, but I just found a glitch with the new soccer player outfit! if you press the spacebar, your character will throw the soccer ball, so if you press the spacebar and then jump to the side, then the ball will go with your character!
i cant wait until skull watever comes out
13th to write i think because styx wrote twice
oh yea who got the hypnotic outfit ? its free all you do is go on to early poptropica by the guy with the pigments jump on the green building then hop on to the window with the orange plant on it and click the window its a realy cool suit!
i said it first yea , well i think i havent read the comments…..
oh well !
oh thanks christopher !
uhh black beard is like SO disgusting!
peace out!
6 days left till skullduggery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am so excited!
I got it! The outfit is kinda werid though.
I guess it’s cool to know that Blackbeard was a pirate for three years!!!! But it’s summer time and I should NOT be learning right now!!!
I agree Dr. Purple.
The 1st to comment thing is fun to do. There really doesn’t have to be a purpose for it. Fun doesn’t have a purpose. Right?
And to prove my point, this is the 32 comment for this topic!!!
Haha!
Well ths is the 33 comment! Last but not least, am I right? Slow and Steady wins the race, Right? HAHA! YES!
it is the 17th and this game is not letting me play skull duggery while the poptropica moderators are checking this launch the island, baby!
They let me play cool panda. hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you share your username and password with other poptropica players? Did’ja? Maybe that’s why you couldn’t play skullduggery! They also could have locked your poptropica acount, forever and ever! Do’not do it again with your new acouts and old acounts! The warship is mine, mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHH!!!! I like Anne Bonny more.
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does anyone know what the poptropica fireworks do?? after i get my 250 credits, i don’t know what to buy.
coud some one tell me how to help the villagers!
if you get 250 credits buy 3 or 2 costumes
or a gold card
help MEEE!!!
sorry please pretend you put a period between the words: later and please at the top
and remember what i said!!!!!!!! bye
Blackbeard Shmackbeard! Blackie was a CHILD compared ta Flint!
Blackbeard is a son of Ares, God of war.
or so i heard.
I hate K, SP, MD, CD, IF, STMD, A, P, and everyone.
Yes! All alone at last.
Nobody is gonna hassle me here. not those stupid “friends”, anyway. And I don’t care that I’m talking to myself, so long as I’m not ignored.
I do not care if people call me nuts or anything. They’re not going to find me and lock me up, anyway.
I just suffered the pain of being ignored. believe me, if you go through it your goona get as nutty as I am.
GG?
I AM SO SORRY!!!!!!!!
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