What's the First Time a Pirate Stolen From the English?

He would steal from british ships, french ships, spanish ships. Would often hail other ships by throwing up a french flag. Then put up what's known as the jolly roger, the black flag with ha skull and crossbones. And then he would do that immediately when the ship was too close to get away. The point of this was to scare and intimidate the people in the other ship so he could go in and steal their goods. He grew out a huge, long, bushy beard. It came up almost to his eyes, so it covered most of his face. This went against the social conventions of the day,. where men, if they wanted to be