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He was Jean Lafitte. ... Book cover: Jean Lafitte "The Corsair" by E.H. Suydam ... There is a national park named after him, and along the Mississippi below New Orleans sits the City of Jean Lafitte. To some, however, he is still a pirate.
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South Louisiana: Alligators. Bayous. Music with a beat that just won't stop. Food you'll never forget. And the Mississippi River rolling along through it all. Experience it at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.
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The Barataria Preserve outside Marrero offers a taste of Louisiana’s wild wetlands. The preserve’s 20,000 acres include bayous, swamps, marshes, forests, alligators, nutrias, and over 300 Boardwalk and dirt trails wind through the preserve and waterways can be explored by canoe or kayak; ... 6588 Barataria Boulevard,
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The story of Jean Lafitte Gulf Coast Pirate and Privateer: Early Life of Jean Lafitte Barataria and Privateering,The Battle of New Orleans,Galveston 1817-21,The Mystery of the Final Years of Jean Lafitte, Lafitte's Treasure ... Jean Lafitte was one of the leaders or bos of the community of privateers on Grand Terre.
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jeanlafitte.net/
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You Found It! A detailed description of the Exploits of the Pirate Jean Lafitte in the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Island ... The History of Texas: Jean Lafitte...
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www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/jean-lafitte.htm
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Who was Jean Laffite? A pirate? A privateer? A hero? A rogue? ... Jean Laffite, Enigma and Legend By Cindy Valla ... Jean Laffite first appeared in New Orleans in 1803, but where was he born? Marseilles, Bordeaux, St. Domingue? No one knows, because he told different stories to different people. He was the son of...
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Jean Lafitte, or Laffite, c.1780-c.1826, was a Louisiana privateer and smuggler who helped U.S. forces in the Battle of New Orleans at the end of the WAR OF 1812. About 1810 he and his men settled in the area of Barataria Bay, near New Orleans, and preyed on Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
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By 1817 the privateers of Jean Lafitte and his predecessor, Luis de Aury, were capturing numerous Spanish slavers off the coast of Cuba. The pirate's barracoons, or slave pens, on Galveston Island were often swelled beyond capacity, containing a thousand or more African chattels.
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