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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).
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
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lafitte (2 June 1796 – 6 March 1879) was a 19th-century French playwright, novelist, journalist and comedian.. A pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre du Vaudeville, the Théâtre français, the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, and the Théâtre des Variétés.
Lafitte is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé, French army engineer; Ed Lafitte, professional baseball pitcher; Fermín Emilio Lafitte, Argentine archbishop; Guy Lafitte, French tenor saxophonist; Jean Lafitte, French privateer; José White Lafitte, Cuban violinist; Laurent Lafitte, French actor
Located adjacent to the Chalmette National Cemetery, and within the boundaries of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, is the site of the defunct Freedmen's Cemetery, a four-acre African American burial ground that had been established by the federal government in 1867 to inter the remains of formerly enslaved men, women and ...
The town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, languished under several feet of floodwater on August 30, after a 10- to 12-foot storm surge topped levees in the area when Hurricane Ida hit on August 29 ...
Previously believed to depict You (standing) and the Lafitte brothers. Dominique You or Youx (born Frederic You or Youx , c. 1775 – November 15, 1830) was a French privateer , soldier , and politician .