The Compendium

Battles

Boarding actions, sieges, and the last stands. Pivotal engagements that defined careers, ended them, and shaped the law of the sea.

Battle

Battle of Ocracoke Inlet

The end of Blackbeard

A Royal Navy lieutenant and twenty-odd men in two unarmed sloops ran Edward Teach to ground in the shallows of the Outer Banks. He died on deck after twenty cuts and five musket balls.

22 November 1718