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Month: August 2026

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: Medicine at Gunpoint

    By May of 1718, Blackbeard was no longer just a pirate. He was a storm rolling up the Carolina coast — unpredictable, hungry, and growing more desperate by the day. His ships were battered. His men were wounded. And his three surgeons, taken months earlier from Le Concorde, were running out of the very thing…

  • The Surgeons of the Devil’s Ship: The Taking of Le Concorde

    Before Blackbeard became the terror of the Carolinas, before the smoke‑braided beard and the roaring theatrics, before Ocracoke carved his legend into the bone of history — there were three men who witnessed his rise from a very different angle. Not as crew. Not as captains. Not as enemies. But as surgeons. Jean Dubou. Marc…

  • From the Galley: Pineapple Cornbread

    Ahoy, mateys! Today I’m bringin’ ye one of my favorite comfort foods with a Caribbean twist. If ye aren’t hungry now, ye will be by the time this plunder is done. You have been warned. From the island of Anguilla, tucked like a jewel in the heart of the Caribbean Sea, comes a dish that’s…