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Apr 26, 2020 · The truth about the life of Jean Lafitte, the pirate of New Orleans, is shrouded in mystery, while myths, legends, hoaxes, and forgeries abound.
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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".
Despite his notorious reputation as a pirate, Jean Lafitte was far from the lawless marauder one might expect. On Galveston Island, where he established the settlement of Campeche, Lafitte wielded a surprising degree of authority and discipline over his followers.
- Did The Lafittes Own A Blacksmith Shop in New Orleans’ French Quarter?
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An 1802 newspaper ad mentioned a blacksmith named Lafi tte, but no first name was given and the shop was not at the corner of Bourbon and St. Phillip streets where the business known as Jean Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop stands today. The story may have begun because Pierre Lafitte’s mistress owned a building on St. Phillip Street across from today’s ...
In the 1938 and 1958 films The Buccaneer, Lafitte claims he never attacked an American ship. Actually, his men attacked several American ships but apparently did not kill any crewmen, possibly because they did not fight back. Lafitte’s men did resist arrest by American federal agents and soldiers, wounding, murdering, and capturing several.
In the 1950s, a man claiming to be a descendant of Lafitte published “The Journal of Jean Laffite.” The journal was republished in the 1990s as “The Memoirs of Jean Laffite.” A major theme in the memoir/journal is Lafitte’s change of heart from slave trader to anti-slavery activist. The man also owned documents claiming Lafi tte lived until the 185...
This story first appeared in a local newspaper in the 1920s from an unnamed source and has no basis in fact. The story claimed that American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones was the uncle of Jean Lafitte and Napoleon Bonaparte and that the two were cousins. After Napoleon’s exile to St. Helena by the English in 1815, the story says Lafi...
Aside from a state historical marker out front, there’s little sign this overgrown lot was once the encampment of Texas’ most infamous pirate, Jean Lafitte. From 1817-20, Lafitte headquartered his smuggling business on Galveston Island, which was then part of Spanish Texas.
Nov 13, 2019 · Jean Laffite (Lafitte), pirate, was born in Bayonne, France, probably in 1780 or 1781, the son of a French father and a Spanish mother. He was four years younger than his more capable brother, Pierre.
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the communes leader, the pirate (or privateer) Jean Lafitte. The young man returned to Galveston Island in 1881 with the earned title of Doctor Joseph Oysterman Dyer, this after graduating in medicine from the Sheffield Scientific School, later known as Yale, to set up
