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French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
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lafitte
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Lafitte is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé , French army engineer Ed Lafitte , professional baseball pitcher Fermín Emilio Lafitte , Argentine archbishop Guy Lafitte , French tenor saxophonist Jean Lafitte ...
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Population (2000): 1576 Housing Units (2000): 623 Land area (2000): 5.700491 sq. miles (14.764204 sq. km) Water area (2000): 2.068859 sq. miles (5.358319 sq. km) Total area (2000): 7.769350 sq. miles (20.122523 sq. km) FIPS code: 40840 Located within: Louisiana ...
Usage examples of lafitte.
Once again Louis came before the man he now knew to be Jean Lafitte, Terror of the Gulf.
Later he moved to New Orleans, became a personal friend of the Baratarian pirate Jean Lafitte, and served on the staff of General Andrew Jackson, helping to defeat the British at New Orleans in 1815.
Well, she didn't care if it was Jean Lafitte himself, she was going to stop it!
At almost any cost Mirina wanted to stay in space, but serving under a hot dog who thought he was Jean Lafitte or Xak Milliane Ya was just out of her price range.
She had seen Jean Lafitte and his pirates selling their stolen swag on Bayou Barataria.
Through a flow of cool dry air that pumped ceaselessly from ceiling vents, Fric followed a narrow dome-vaulted passageway of Pinot Noir to a wider groin-vaulted corridor of Cabernet, circled a curiously coved grotto of Lafitte Rothschild stocked with various vintages, continued through a tunnel of Merlot, in search of a place where he would be able to hide without fear of discovery.
Francis it turned out was a connoisseur, and happily he uncorked a number of dusty bottles, Chateauneuf du Pape, then a century-old sauternes from Chateau d'Yquem, and his specialty, red premier cru from Bordeaux called Pauillac, two each from Chateaux Latour and Lafitte, and a 2064 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild with a label by Pougnadoresse.