Bonnet's Treasure Traditional Cache
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Avast Mateys! To honor International Talk Like A Pirate Day on September 19th, Stede Bonnet has left a treasure chest for you lubbers to find. It be hidden near the site of Capt. Bonnet's capture by the limey Lt. Rhet out of Charlestown, South Carolina. If'n ye have yer letters, ye can read the monument and record your thoughts in the ship's log. Ye best be speakin' pirate, or risk finding the Black Spot come to thee one dark and stormy night. Aaaaarrrrrh!!!!!
Stede Bonnet is sometimes known as the "Gentleman Pirate". He retired from the British Army as a Major and settled on substantial lands in Barbados. His retirement was spoiled by a nagging wife, so to escape his unhappy home he went a'pirating. He actually bought a ship, rather than going the traditional pirate route of stealing one. He outfitted her with ten guns and seventy men and off he sailed to South Carolina. He met with uncommon success for a rank amateur and soon drew the attention of Capt. Teach, aka Blackbeard. Blackbeard forced Bonnet into a "partnership", taking him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge as a "guest" and placing his own man in charge of Bonnet's "Revenge."
When an amnesty was offered by North Carolina's governor, both Bonnet and Blackbeard accepted the offer. But war again broke out among England, France and Spain and Bonnet went off on his own to become a privateer. That didn't work out quite so well, and before long Bonnet was back to piracy.
A young English naval officer, Lt. Rhet, was sent out from Charlestown to capture Bonnet and found him laid up at the mouth of the Cape Fear river repairing his new flagship, the "Royal James." Bonnet tried to escape, but was captured and carried back to Charleston with great fanfare. He escaped prison, only to be captured once more and hanged in November of 1718.
Stede Bonnet is credited as being the only pirate to really make his prisoners "walk the plank."
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