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In September 1873 his forces, more than 8,000 strong, entered the city and defeated the city/state militia of about 3500 in New Orleans. The Democrats took control of the state house, armory and police stations, where the state government was then located, in what was known as the Battle of Jackson Square.
Jackson Square, formerly the Place d'Armes (French) or Plaza de Armas (Spanish), is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, for its central role in the city's history, and as the site where in 1803 Louisiana was made United States territory pursuant to the Louisiana Purchase.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection.
George A. Caldwell, sometimes known as Big George Caldwell (August 24, 1892 – March 12, 1966), was a Louisiana building contractor and state official. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression , he served as Superintendent for Construction at Louisiana State University , where he was known to "rake off 2 per cent of the cost of all building ...
The Iberville development was built on a ten-block site in the early 1940s as part of the Wagner Bill. The land was previously Storyville, the city's official red light district. In 1940, the city declared 95% of the structures in Storyville substandard, clearing the way for construction of the project. There were 858 units in the Iberville ...
Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline II was born in the 1710s, presumably 1715, on the French Louisiana settlement of Massacre Island, modern day Dauphin Island, Alabama. He was the son of Sieur Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline, the captain of the Pascagoula militia, and the first settler of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and one of the original ...
[2] [10] Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, Williams was the first person to be executed in Louisiana, and the tenth in the United States. [11] He was also the second black person to be executed in the United States since 1976, as well as the first person to be executed for killing a black victim. [2] [7] [12]
William Bruce Mumford (December 5, 1819 – June 7, 1862) [1] was a North Carolina native and resident of New Orleans, who tore down the U.S. flag raised over Confederate New Orleans after the city was captured by Union troops during the American Civil War.