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Dulaien's pirate flag was described by the mayor of Nantes as "black cloth, with white designs of human figures, cutlasses, bones, and hourglasses." [ 2 ] A woodblock purportedly made from a drawing of the flag has survived, as have other independent drawings of it.
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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".
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 ...
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