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Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate, privateer, and slave trader 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".
Jean Le Ferron took custody of the castle at Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte from his brother Geoffroy, who had purchased it from Marshal of France Gilles de Rais. Rais later attempted to reclaim his castle; when Jean Le Ferron refused to hand it over, Rais seized it by force with help from a retinue of soldiers before dragging Le Ferron out of the ...
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).
Jean Lafitte was a French pirate and privateer. The name may also refer to: Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, United States, a town; Jean Lafitte Hotel, Galveston, Texas, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places; SS Jean Lafitte (1942), transferred to the United States Navy as the attack transport USS Warren, later a container ship
The bayou is so named because of the legendary pirate Jean Lafitte, who built a slave barracks on the bayou in the early 1800s [2] and reputedly hid his contraband somewhere along the shores of the bayou. [3] The bayou is moderately saline, with low flow, and receives Lake Charles municipal waste discharge. [1]
As legend tells it, one day Charles Sallier thought that Catherine was having an affair with the famous pirate, Jean Lafitte. In rage, he shot at his wife and assumed she was dead. In guilt and regret, Charles ran off. However, Catherine had survived the shot by only a simple piece of jewelry – her brooch.
A federal jury awarded E. Jean Carroll more than $80 million last month in her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. The path to that verdict was anything but straightforward ...
Long also attempted to recruit the French pirate Jean Lafitte and his men, but Lafitte turned him down. [3] Several of Long's recruits were former French soldiers who had started and quickly abandoned a settlement in Texas known as the Champ d'Asile in 1818.