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Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".
During World War I, when he was under 16 years old, Voignier adopted the alias Jean Pierre LaFitte in the employ of Colonel Ralph H. Van Deman, fighting for his elite group of raggedy "former criminals and morons" called the Army Counterintelligence Police (CIP), that would eventually become the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID).
Category: Crimes in New Orleans. ... Jean Lafitte; Pierre Lafitte; Battle of Liberty Place; N. New Orleans Massacre of 1866; R.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...
Long also contacted Jean Lafitte, who ran a large smuggling operation on Galveston Island. His letter suggested that the new government establish an admiralty court at Galveston, and offered to appoint Lafitte governor of Galveston. Unbeknownst to Long, Lafitte was actually a Spanish spy.
Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) Old Ironsides: United States James Cruze: Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery: Also known as Sons of the Sea. Set in the Mediterranean Sea, in the early 19th century. 1927 The Road to Romance: United States John S. Robertson: Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day, Marc McDermott: Based on Romance ...
A federal judge instructed jurors picked in the trial against former bank CEO Russell Laffitte to avoid all news coverage and social media posts about the case on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr ...
The Pirate Festival festivities kick off every year with a pirate ship bombardment to "take control of the city" at the seawall of the Lake Charles Civic Center. A gang of rowdy and unruly buccaneers and "Jean Lafitte" overruns the blazing cannons of the local militia. They then raise their "Jolly Roger" flag and capture the mayor by force with ...