At the main he hoisted a black flag, on which were displayed a skeleton and a man with a flaming sword; the jack was black, showing a man standing on two skulls, and St.
George's ensign was at the ensign staff.

After a desperate encounter, Roberts was slain by a grape-shot, and the _Royal Fortune_ carried by boarding, the pirates resisting to the last.

Out of two hundred and seventy-six men captured in the two ships, fifty-two were executed, all of them Englishmen.

Ogle was knighted for his able and gallant conduct.
The re-establishment of authority at the Bahamas had led to an increase in the numbers of the Madagascar pirates; so Commodore Thomas Matthews was despatched to the East Indies with a strong squadron, consisting of the _Lyon_, 50 guns; _Salisbury_, 40 guns; _Exeter_, 50 guns; and _Shoreham_, 20 guns.

The Company's ship _Grantham_ was also placed under his orders, to act as a store-ship.