On a foggy December morning in 1818, California's only pirate emerged from the coastal haze and landed at Dana Point to demand supplies from the Mission. When the padres declined, the corsairs attacked, drank all their wine, and burned down the town. Hippolyte de Bouchard is still celebrated as a hero in Argentina, but in the early days of California, the rancheros knew him as the dreaded "Pirata Bouchard." Come, conjure the spirit of our lonely privateer!