John Bartholomew Roberts, posthumously known as "Black Bart" The most prolific of all pirates. He was credited with taking nearly 500 ships.
Generally referred to in his
time simply as Roberts, he was so feared by merchant men that they were known to abandon
ship without a fight if they told it was Roberts
ship approaching.
On the 10th of
February 1722, at Cape Lopez in what is now the
West African state of Gabon a Captain Challoner Ogle of the Royal
Navy engaged and defeated one of the worlds most notorious outlaws, Bartholomew Roberts.