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Pierre Lafitte

Index Pierre Lafitte

Pierre Lafitte (c. 1770–1821) was a pirate in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 48 relations: Andrew Jackson, Artillery, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, Barataria Bay, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Battle of New Orleans, Biarritz, Blacksmith, Brest, France, Caribbean, Dominique You, Embargo Act of 1807, First Mexican Empire, French Quarter, Galveston, Texas, Grand Isle, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, James Bowie, James Madison, Jean Lafitte, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, Letter of marque, List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States, Louisiana (New France), Louisiana (New Spain), Louisiana Purchase, Mississippi River Delta, New Orleans, New Spain, Orduña-Urduña, Pauillac, Pensacola, Florida, Peter Ellis Bean, Pirogue, Privateer, Renato Beluche, Royal Street, New Orleans, Saint-Domingue, Saint-Malo, Smuggling, Spain, War of 1812, West Florida, Westchester County, New York, Yucatán, Yucatán Peninsula.

  2. 19th-century spies
  3. American people of the War of 1812
  4. Battle of New Orleans
  5. Crimes in New Orleans
  6. French mass murderers
  7. French pirates
  8. French slave traders
  9. Louisiana folklore
  10. People from Colonial Spanish Louisiana
  11. Piracy in the United States

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Pierre Lafitte and Andrew Jackson are 19th-century American slave traders and Battle of New Orleans.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Ascension Parish, Louisiana

Ascension Parish (Paroisse de l'Ascension; Parroquia de la Ascensión) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Barataria Bay

Barataria Bay (Baie de Barataria), also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States. Pierre Lafitte and Barataria Bay are Piracy in the Caribbean.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Battle of New Orleans

The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana.

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Biarritz

Biarritz (also spelled Miarritze; Biàrritz) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).

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Brest, France

Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Dominique You

Dominique You or Youx (born Frederic You or Youx, – November 15, 1830) was a French privateer, soldier, and politician. Pierre Lafitte and Dominique You are 1770s births, 18th-century French people, 19th-century pirates, American people of the War of 1812, American pirates, Battle of New Orleans, people from Saint-Domingue, Piracy in the Caribbean and Piracy in the United States.

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Embargo Act of 1807

The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general trade embargo on all foreign nations that was enacted by the United States Congress.

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First Mexican Empire

The Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano) was a constitutional monarchy, the first independent government of Mexico and the only former viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire to establish a monarchy after independence.

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French Quarter

The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Grand Isle, Louisiana

Grand Isle is a town in Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on a barrier island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.

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James Bowie

James Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. Pierre Lafitte and James Bowie are 19th-century American people, 19th-century American slave traders and American folklore.

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James Madison

James Madison (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Pierre Lafitte and James Madison are American people of the War of 1812.

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Jean Lafitte

Jean Lafitte (–) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. Pierre Lafitte and Jean Lafitte are 18th-century French people, 19th-century American merchants, 19th-century American people, 19th-century American slave traders, 19th-century pirates, American mass murderers, American people of the War of 1812, American pirates, Battle of New Orleans, Crimes in New Orleans, French mass murderers, French pirates, French slave traders, Louisiana folklore, maritime folklore, pardoned pirates, people from Colonial Spanish Louisiana, people from New Orleans, people from Saint-Domingue, Piracy in the Caribbean, Piracy in the United States and Recipients of American presidential pardons.

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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St.

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Letter of marque

A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury.

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List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States

This is a partial list of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States. Pierre Lafitte and list of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States are Recipients of American presidential pardons.

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Louisiana (New France)

Louisiana (Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.

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Louisiana (New Spain)

Louisiana (La Luisiana), or the Province of Louisiana (Provincia de La Luisiana), was a province of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 primarily located in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans. Pierre Lafitte and Louisiana (New Spain) are people from Colonial Spanish Louisiana.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.

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Mississippi River Delta

The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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Orduña-Urduña

Urduña/Orduña (Urduña; Orduña) is an exclave and municipality of 4,232 inhabitants located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain.

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Pauillac

Pauillac (Paulhac) is a municipality in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

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Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle.

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Peter Ellis Bean

Peter Ellis Bean (sometimes Ellis Peter Bean; Pedro Elias Bean) (June 8, 1783, Grainger County, Tennessee – October 6?, 1846, Veracruz) was a United States filibuster in Texas and Mexico, and a Mexican revolutionary.

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Pirogue

A pirogue, also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Renato Beluche

Renato Beluche (15 December 1780 – 4 October 1860) was a Spanish Louisiana-born Venezuelan merchant, pirate and privateer active in the early nineteenth century Gulf Coast. Pierre Lafitte and Renato Beluche are 19th-century pirates, Battle of New Orleans and Piracy in the Caribbean.

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Royal Street, New Orleans

Royal Street (Rue Royale; Calle Real) is a street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It is one of the original streets of the city, dating from the early 18th century, and is known today for its antique shops, art galleries, and hotels.

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Saint-Domingue

Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804.

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Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.

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Smuggling

Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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West Florida

West Florida (Florida Occidental) was a region on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico that underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history.

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Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York, bordering the Long Island Sound to its east and the Hudson River on its west.

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Yucatán

Yucatán (also,,; Yúukatan), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán (Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Yucatán Peninsula

The Yucatán Peninsula (also,; Península de Yucatán) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala.

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See also

19th-century spies

American people of the War of 1812

Battle of New Orleans

Crimes in New Orleans

French mass murderers

French pirates

French slave traders

Louisiana folklore

People from Colonial Spanish Louisiana

Piracy in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lafitte