In 1715, Thatch, Hornigold and James Kidd met with Edward Kenway in Nassau. Kenway: " You don't do nothing subtle, do ya, Thatch?" Thatch: " Legends ain't born from mildness." -Edward Kenway and Thatch, 1718. ![]() Eventually he turned to piracy to make his living, serving as Hornigold's quartermaster between 17. With the advent of peace in 1713, Thatch was, like so many other privateers, denounced by his government and left to fend for himself. ![]() However, when Blaney attempted to cheat, he was shot by Thatch, and Kenway was recruited into Thatch's crew. Thatch told them to have a fistfight instead, with Kenway emerging victorious. Blaney, one of the remaining pirates decided to join Thatch's crew, and asked if he could kill Edward Kenway, the other survivor. The pirates were soon overpowered by the privateers and the soldiers, and only two of them were left alive. ![]() In January 1713, Thatch and his crew came to the rescue of the Amazon Galley, a ship belonging to the East India Company, when it was being boarded by the crew of the Emperor. During the war, Thatch met Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Kenway, and Charles Vane. Little is known of his early years until the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701, when he served as a privateer for the Royal Navy in the Caribbean. Edward Thatch was likely born in Bristol, England, in 1680.
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