This privateer operated from Grand Terre Island in Barataria Bay just south of New Orleans
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Lafitte and His Barataria Pirates, New Orleans, extenstive historical ...  Lafitte, The Creoles, New Orleans, extenstive historical content. ... But he had his trysting place on the Island of Grande Terre, in Barataria Bay. # ... to spend a week with him at Barataria and see for themselves if the verdict were not just. .... common offences of fitting out privateers in the United States, to operate against the...
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Jean Lafitte - Wikipedia  ... Louisiana, South Carolina, Illinois, Leon, Nicaragua, or So Miguel Island, Azores  Piratical career. Type, pirate, privateer, spy, naval artillery officer. Jean Lafitte ( c. 1780  c. 1823) was a French-American pirate and privateer in the Gulf of .... By 1806, several "Captain Lafitte"s operated in New Orleans; Jean Lafitte was...
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Heart of Louisiana: Fort Livingston on Grand Terre - FOX 8 WVUE ...  Jul 3, 2015 ... Today, the largest of those forts, and the only one on the Gulf of Mexico, . ... FOX 8's Dave McNamara takes us to Grand Terre Island in tonight's Heart of Louisiana. ... of British attacks on America and New Orleans in the War of 1812. ... standpoint because Barataria Pass leads into Barataria Bay right up into...
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History of PIRATES! Legends of the Gulf Coast in Galveston, Texas TX  The Gulf of Mexico had served as a major port for pirates and privateers alike, during the ... Louisiana (more specifically the Barataria Bay and Grand Terre islands), was ... the Lafitte brothers brought wealth and prosperity to New Orleans by way of ... However, Jean was not the only pirate to sail the Gulf Coast waters; in fact,...
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Jean Laffite  a Real Pirate of the Caribbean  Living in Colombia  Oct 28, 2014 ... There is a national park bearing his name, and below New Orleans, along the ... Athough this town uses only one 'f' in the spelling, copies of Laffite's ... into Louisiana, via Grande Terre, an island in Barataria Bay at the mouth ... Technically Jean Laffite and company were legal businessmen  or privateers.
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Jean Lafitte - Wikipedia  Jean Lafitte ( c. 1780  c. 1823) was a French-American pirate and privateer in the Gulf of .... On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Britain. ..... Lafitte conducted most business aboard his ship, The Pride, where he also lived.
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Heart of Louisiana: Descendants of Jean Lafitte - FOX 8 WVUE New ...  One of the heroes of that historic battle is the pirate Jean Lafitte. ... of up to 14,000 British soldiers at Chalmette. firing some of the American cannons ... And on Grand Isle, there are families who are direct descendants of those pirates. ... "This was from our relatives that fought and was part of Jean Lafitte's crew, " Landry said.
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The Legend of Jean Lafitte - Antique Radios  Before embarking on any serious quest for buried gold, check into Texas Law ... from 1817 to 1821, LaFitte and his band of buccaneers made their headquarters on ... He set up his headquarters on Barataria Island in the Mississippi Delta, and...
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New Orleans (steamboat) - Wikipedia  The New Orleans was the first steamboat on the western waters of the United States. Owned by Robert Fulton and Robert R. Livingston, and built by Nicholas Roosevelt, its 18111812 voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to New Orleans, Louisiana on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers .... Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and put it into service at New Orleans, named it...
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Jean Laffite | American pirate | Britannica.com  Privateer and smuggler who interrupted his illicit adventures to fight heroically ... Still protesting his loyalty to the U.S., Laffite next offered aid to the hard-pressed forces of Gen. ... Jackson accepted, and in the Battle of New Orleans (December 1814January 1815) the Baratarians, as Laffite and ... Help us improve this article!
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March 29, 1964 - Quiet Grand Isle Once Louisiana Lair for Pirates ...  "See why Jean Lafitte chose these Barataria bay waters for his pirate village? ... Today, Grand Isle is famous for boating and fishing, rated by some experts as one of ... Many of their descendants are highly respected citizens today. ... arched over by live oak, pines and palms, reach back to quiet-water bay- side swamplands.
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History | Painperdu  Mar 2, 2011 ... Cals, a traditional New Orleans rice beignet, were a dish in danger of dying out ... extremely bloody period of slave rebellion on the island of Saint Domingue in the 1790's. ... So perhaps, in some way, we all owe a debt to Haiti. New Orleans is often referred to as a Caribbean city, and many of its distinctive...
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Gulf Coast Campaign and Battle of New Orleans - National Park ...  May 22 US Gen. ... William Carroll calls for militia volunteers in TN to aid Jackson (Jackson was ... 24-29 British fleet gathers in Jamaica, then sets sail for US Gulf Coast. ... built at Chef Menteur Pass east of New Orleans and assigns MS and TN militia, ... The American victory at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815,...
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St. Helena, 'Cursed Rock' of Napoleon's Exile - The New York Times  Mar 29, 2012 ... Napoleon lived out his exile on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, ... St. Helena island, a British protectorate in the South Atlantic, where Napoleon ... of history and literature for Napoleon's ghost, I would finally find him. .... The Emperor's Grand Marshal Count Bertrand described the place as a...
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Sturgis Plaza - Little Rock, Arkansas - Arkansas Ties  by the French explorer, Bernard De La Harpe, on his voyage from the mouth of the ... A 4,700 pound piece was detached and moved to the grounds of City Hall. ... La Petite Roche ("the Little Rock") refers to the rock outcropping on the ... Sometimes called the Point of Rocks, it is the first rock on the Arkansas River as one...
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence - Wikipedia  The Gulf of Saint Lawrence is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the Saint ... As for significant islands the Gulf of Saint Lawrence contains Anticosti Island, Prince ... The Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland: between 15 ... Access to this island is controlled by the Canadian Coast Guard.
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Andrew Jackson: Leading the Battle of New Orleans | HistoryNet  With the help of a dark night and some money, he had the gasconade posted all over ... the key to blocking an enemy attempt to sail up the Mississippi to attack the city. ... Other messengers headed up the Mississippi to urge militia from Tennessee ... Gen. William Carroll. During their five-week trip down the river, Carroll had...
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The Beast in the Big Easy - The New York Times  May 18, 2012 ... Benjamin Butler and the occupation of New Orleans. ... After Flag Officer David Farragut captured New Orleans in April 1862, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler occupied the city at the head of some 10,000 Union soldiers. ... and snarled, I am the military governor of this state  the supreme power  you cannot...
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P. G. T. Beauregard - Wikipedia  Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was a Southern military officer, politician, inventor, writer, ... In April 1865, Beauregard and his commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, convinced Davis and the remaining ... in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, about 20 miles (32 km) outside New Orleans, to a French Creole family.
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Louisiana's Fight in the Revolutionary War | Yat Lagniappe  Jan 15, 2015 ... Louisiana, then under the Spanish flag, waged impressive ... the Louisiana territory west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New ... After Unzaga, Bernardo de Glvez y Madrid took governorship of Louisiana. ... which at the time had more troops along the Gulf Coast than Spain. .... Name (required).
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Jean Lafitte - Wikipedia  Jean Lafitte ( c. 1780  c. 1823) was a French-American pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his elder brother, Pierre, spelled their last name Laffite, but .... The brothers soon acquired a third ship, La Diligent. ... Governor William C.C. Claiborne took a leave of absence in September 1810...