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English: "They desired us to come on board, but seeing Death Head in the stern we refused it etc." - Thomas Knight's description of Blackbeard's pirate flag from their encounter on November 29, 1717. It looks like Blackbeard's historically accurate flag wasn't the notorious horned skeleton but actually a much simpler flag, the white human skull ...
During the Golden Age of Piracy, Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) was one of the most infamous pirates on the seas.The only record there is of what flag he flew was in 1718 in a newspaper report which stated that Blackbeard's fleet, including his flagship Queen Anne's Revenge, during an attack on the Protestant Caesar flew black flags with death heads and "bloody flags".
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English: Jolly Roger pirate flag of Bartholomew Roberts, one of several he flew. As described in Johnson's General History, "it had the figure of a skeleton in it, and a man portrayed with a flaming sword in his hand, intimating a defiance of death itself."