Israel Hands's name serves as the basis for the name of the villainous sidekick in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.
11 Facts About Israel Hands
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Israel Hands requested assistance from Hands with the Adventure in an effort to kedge the Queen Anne's Revenge off the bar.
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Teach, Israel Hands and Stede Bonnet took approximately half the pirates, marooning the rest, and set sail for Ocracoke.
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Captain Charles Johnson wrote that Israel Hands was shot in the knee when Teach fired at another of his crew, missing him but striking Israel Hands.
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At the time Israel Hands was in Bath, North Carolina, recuperating from his permanently disabling pistol wound.
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In exchange for a pardon, Israel Hands testified against corrupt North Carolina officials with whom Teach had consorted.
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However, in Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 A General History of the Pyrates, Israel Hands is said to have died impoverished in London.
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Israel Hands appears as a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island and media based on it, in which he is the Hispaniolas coxswain and one of Long John Silver's pirates.
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Israel Hands is described as the late Captain Flint's gunner and no mention is made of Blackbeard.
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Israel Hands engages in a prolonged battle with Jim Hawkins before being shot by the boy.
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Israel Hands appears very briefly in the 2013 video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, showing a crate of medicine needed for the population of Nassau to Blackbeard, leading him to hold hostages at Charleston.