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Word: black-bearded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...island coves and inlets Pirates Morgan, Stede Bonnet and "Black-beard" Teach once lay in wait to raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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