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John Vidal's career as a pirate was short-lived and comedic. For one week in 1727, Vidal, who called Bath home, attempted to raid Ocracoke Inlet just after the Gold Age of Piracy. His acts of piracy around the inlet were brought to trial on August 15, 1727 in front of Virginia's Acting Royal Governor. Where Vidal was unfortunate in piracy, he was fortunate in the Governor's ruling which initially was execution but Vidal was later pardoned.
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17781
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The Confederate Torpedo Bureau was an initiative by Confederate leaders to find alternatives to protect the South's coastline and harbors from a much larger Union Navy. Wilmington was the state's torpedo building center. Another Confederate Torpedo Bureau initiative in the state includes the cooperative efforts between Captain Rains and Colonel William Lamb in constructing and designing defenses for Fort Fisher.
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Fort Ocracoke was built to protect the inlet which connected the Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic. Designed by Colonel Ellwood Morris, construction started on May 1861. Five companies supported the 20 gun fort until an attack on Fort Hatteras drew four of these five companies away. Orders soon followed that if Fort Hatteras fell Fort Ocracoke should be abandoned, which it was with Confederate troops spiking its guns and burning the fort.
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