<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> Lieutenant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maynard" id="mwQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Maynard">Robert Maynard</a> attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a>") off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.<sup about="#mwt40" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_22#cite_note-6" id="mwRQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwRg">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt37" class="citation cs2" id="CITEREFLee1974">Lee, Robert E. (1974), <i id="mwCEY">Blackbeard the Pirate</i> (2002<span id="mwCEc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.), North Carolina: John F. Blair, pp.<span id="mwCEg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>120–124, <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCEk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCEo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-89587-032-0" id="mwCEs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-89587-032-0"><bdi id="mwCEw">0-89587-032-0</bdi></a></cite><span about="#mwt37" class="Z3988" id="mwCE0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Blackbeard+the+Pirate&amp;rft.place=North+Carolina&amp;rft.pages=120-124&amp;rft.edition=2002&amp;rft.pub=John+F.+Blair&amp;rft.date=1974&amp;rft.isbn=0-89587-032-0&amp;rft.aulast=Lee&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+E.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+22"></span></span>