In November 1717, English pirates captured the French slave-ship La Concorde near the island of Martinique. Led by the notorious Blackbeard, the pirates converted La Concorde into their flagship and renamed the vessel Queen Anne's Revenge. After spending the winter searching for prizes in the Caribbean the pirate fleet consisting of Queen Anne's Revenge and three smaller sloops, blockaded the port of Charleston in May 1718. Continuing up the coast, Blackbeard lost his flagship while attempting to enter Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina and five months later he was killed in a bloody battle at Ocracoke. We can only know this and many other facts associated with the Queen Anne's Revenge through historical research. Written resources are varied, numerous, and rich in content and in the case Queen Anne's Revenge and Blackbeard involve multinational research, including American, English, French and Spanish records that can be found throughout archives in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. The following articles provide a review of the latest findings concerning the history of Beaufort Inlet, Queen Anne's Revenge, ex. La Concorde, and the career of Blackbeard.

 Historical Overview- A Brief History of Blackbeard

 British And American Archival Research

 An Historical Overview of the Beaufort- Cape Lookout Area

 French Archival Research

 Cape Lookout Shipwrecks