"Black Flags" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... receive the support of the English government, many of them accepted offers of land in the plantations and became settlers. Those who were unwilling to lead a quiet life turned regular pirates, mostly hoisting black flags, with some hideous device, such as skulls and crossbones, and attacked all nations indiscriminately. Deane fully believed that he had fallen into the hands of characters of this sort, though he was surprised that they had hitherto treated him and his companions with ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston |
