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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".
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).
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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.
Lyle Saxon (September 4, 1891 – April 9, 1946) was a writer and journalist who reported for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana.He directed the Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration (WPA) guide to Louisiana.
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]
Although Jean Lafitte would later fight for America at New Orleans in January 1815, the squadron had operated against his pirates until ultimately being evicted from their base at Barataria on September 16, 1814 by Commodore Patterson. Six of his pirate ships were captured without a fight and around $500,000 worth of valuables were taken as prize.