Comte de Toulouse was renamed the Ranger and the brig Little Ranger. Roberts and his men captured the two French warships off the Senegal River 's mouth, the sixteen-gun sloop-of-war Comte de Toulouse and a ten-gun brig. In retaliation for Black Bart's repeated attacks on fleets of merchant ships and his killing of the governor, the French Navy and the Royal Navy dispatched several warships to hunt the pirates. This act proved to be his downfall as it was apparently the final straw. Aboard the vessel was the governor of the French colony who was hanged by Roberts from the yardarm of his ship.
In April 1721, Roberts, later known as "Black Bart", was sailing the coast of Martinique when he came across a French frigate of fifty-two guns and captured her. Roberts was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age he captured well over 400 vessels ranging from small fishing boats to large frigates. A Royal Navy man-of-war under Captain Chaloner Ogle defeated the pirate ship of Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Gabon, West Africa. The Battle of Cape Lopez was fought in early 1722 during the Golden Age of Piracy.
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