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Cafe Lafitte in Exile on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, opened in 1933, claims to be the oldest gay bar in the United States. Cafe Lafitte in Exile is a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter that has operated continuously since 1933. It claims to be the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States (along with White Horse Inn in ...
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 ...
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".
The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate-war film [3] made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer [4] and Claire Bloom. [5] [6] [7] Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, [5] [7] [8] [9] the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film The President's Lady.
The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb , Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie MacPherson ...
Tremé (/ t r ə ˈ m eɪ / trə-MAY) is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana."Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, and the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French name, the Faubourg Tremé; [1] it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects.
Film about smugglers in England in the late 18th century. Based on Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh. 1938 The Buccaneer: United States Cecil B. DeMille: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff: Film about Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) Spawn of the North: United States Henry Hathaway: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
Filipino Americans residing in the region, referred to as "Manilamen", were recruited by local pirate Jean Lafitte to join his "Baratarians", a group of privately recruited soldiers serving under the American forces under the command of Andrew Jackson, in the defense of New Orleans. They played a decisive role in securing the American victory ...