I recently came across a really dreadful book review in the Daily Mail Online. The review was titled “He beheaded Blackbeard and hanged cut-throats by the dozen… the life of history’s most ruthless pirate hunter“. It reviews a new book, PIRATE HUNTER: THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN WOODES ROGERS by Graham A. Thomas.
One need not read beyond the title to see a problem. Woodes Rogers did not behead Blackbeard. Nope. Never happened. Blackbeard slipped out of the Bahamas to avoid Woodes Rogers when Rogers was appointed governor with a mandate to crush piracy. Blackbeard moved his base to North Carolina and was indeed killed and had his head cut off and hung from a bowsprit by Lieutenant Robert Maynard, who had been dispatched by Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia, not Rogers.
Starting badly, the review gets worse...
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