Learn more. As the final days of the American Revolution were nearing, British pirates — known as privateers — were still harassing Coastal Maine waters. But one local group of Harpswell men ...

Here's a list of five famous NC pirates. Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, is arguably North Carolina's most famous pirate. "He is remembered as one of the fiercest pirates because of his ...

She reports that the rebel pirate Tuscaloosa had been seized by the British authorities at the Cape for violation of the Neutrality Laws in landing a portion of a captured cargo on that coast.