Local winds can be caused by small temperature differences that  exist within larger systems. Local winds can be strong, as with a  downburst on the leading edge of a supercâ¦ell. They can also produce  locally strong winds, such as tornadoes. Local winds can cause  property damage and harm to people and animals.
Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolinaâs Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy force sent from Virginia.
A Queen in the Caribbean. Late in the fall of 1717, the pirates made their way to the eastern Caribbean. It was here, off the island of Martinique, that Blackbeard and his fellow pirates captured the French slaveship La Concorde -- a vessel he would keep as his flagship and rename Queen Anne's Revenge.