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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...
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    Jean Lafitte is a town on Bayou Barataria in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located in Jefferson Parish, it is named after the privateer Jean Lafitte. The...
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    Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (French: Parc historique national et réserve Jean Lafitte) protects the natural and cultural resources...
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  • known than his younger brother, Jean Lafitte. While not as much of a sailor as Jean, Pierre was the public face of the Lafitte operation, and was known for...
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    SS Jean Lafitte may refer to one of two Type C2-S-E1 ships built by Gulf Shipbuilding for the United States Maritime Commission: SS Jean Lafitte (1942)...
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  • Lafitte may refer to: Lafitte (surname) Lafitte, Louisiana Jean Lafitte, Louisiana Lafitte, Tarn-et-Garonne, a commune in southern France Lafitte Greenway...
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    the privateer Jean Lafitte, aka John Lafitte, owned a business here in the early 19th century. As with many things involving the Lafittes, including the...
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    March 1995, Ouellet was repackaged as "Jean-Pierre LaFitte", the supposed descendant of the pirate Jean LaFitte. As a pirate he wore an eyepatch over his...
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  • Zorro (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Jean Lafitte)
    Cuba, it is attacked by a pirate crew led by Jean Lafitte. Diego and the girls are taken hostage. Lafitte takes them to his base in southern Louisiana...
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    pirate Jean Lafitte from 1817 to 1821, some of his men kidnapped a Karankawa woman. In response, about 300 Karankawa moved in to attack. When Lafitte learned...
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    Yasmine Lafitte (Arabic: ياسمين لافيت) is a French-Moroccan former pornographic actress who performed under the mononym Yasmine. Born in an observant...
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    on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The Buccaneer, a 1958 pirate-war film starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte and...
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    miles (43 km) by road south of New Orleans. Lafitte is bordered to the north by the town of Jean Lafitte, and to the west, across Bayou Barataria, by...
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  • The Buccaneer (1938 film) (category Cultural depictions of Jean Lafitte)
    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...
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    brigantine class sailing vessels. In the early nineteenth century, Jean Lafitte and Pierre Lafitte, kinship of french basque and sea-going privateers, managed...
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  • The Buccaneer (1958 film) (category Cultural depictions of Jean Lafitte)
    1958 pirate-war film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting...
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    commercial success. Less so was The Buccaneer (1958), in which Brynner played Jean Lafitte; he co-starred with Heston, Inger Stevens, Claire Bloom and Charles Boyer...
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    United Provinces of New Granada (1811–1814), later adopted and used by Jean Lafitte from 1817 to 1821 at Galveston Island, Spanish Texas, New Spain Flag...
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    the United States. The original Cafe Lafitte opened in the building that had been the noted pirate Jean Lafitte's blacksmith business in the 18th century...
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  • pitcher Fermín Emilio Lafitte, Argentine archbishop Guy Lafitte, French tenor saxophonist Jean Lafitte, French privateer José White Lafitte, Cuban violinist...
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    pirate Jean Lafitte. History tells that Lafitte and his band of pirates frequented the area's waterways; they are said to have buried Lafitte's contraband...
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    being the capital of the Philippines) were recruited by local pirate Jean Lafitte to join his "Baratarians", a group of privately-recruited soldiers serving...
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    name applies to a national park and an adjacent national preserve. Yet Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve is counted as one unit, despite...
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    Chalmette National Historical Park and Battlefield (now part of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve). This style was used so frequently...
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    was followed by an offer from producer Sam Katzman to play the pirate Jean Lafitte in Last of the Buccaneers (1950). Henreid then went to France for the...
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    the British Empire while they were being led by the French-American Jean Lafitte. Spanish occupation of Louisiana lasted from 1769 to 1800. Beginning...
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  • The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (category Cultural depictions of Jean Lafitte)
    into the bayou to the wrecked pirate ship and last resting place of Jean Lafitte—and the chalice. They are again overtaken by Kubichek and his men, with...
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    during low tide. In Jefferson Parish, Manila Plaza, located in front of Jean Lafitte Town Hall, holds several historical markers and commemorative plaques...
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    Disneyland. An overhead sign at the boat dock names it for the famous pirate Jean Lafitte (although his name is spelled Laffite as the pirate himself originally...
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    Hippolyte Bouchard Huang Bamei Israel Hands Jacquotte Delahaye Jan Janszoon Jean Lafitte Jeanne de Clisson Johanna Hård John Hawkins John Hoar John Newland Maffitt...
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