Re: Blackbeard's Sword, Found!
The Archies claim they found this sword at the wreck site of Queen Anne's Revenge...... well, here's the hole in thier story..... Blackbeard intentionally ran Queen Anne's Revenge into the sandbar on purpose (unbeknown to the crew). He had his treasure, and as much cargo as he could carry loaded onto a smaller Spanish Sloop, and sailed away with a hand-picked crew of just enough men to operate the smaller vessel, leaving the large majority of his crew behind..... Blackbeard was the very first practicioner of what we now call "corporate down-sizing". He got rid of the bulk of his crew in order to reap a greater profit from the reduced splitting of the treasure. Blackbeard was much later on, attacked and killed many miles away from the Queen Anne's Revenge wreck, so in all essence and aspects......that is NOT Blackbeard's sword. For the Archies to make this claim is not only false, it's just downright arrogant and absurd.... sounds like to me someone was trying to justify thier funding awhile longer.
