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Jean Lafitte

Jean Lafitte 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". This has become the common spelling in the United States, including places named after him.

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business · French pirate and privateer · privateer · entrepreneur · pirate · spy · also Jean Lafitte, Jean Laffite, Lafitte

Born 1776 · Died 1 January 1826 · Q454672

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Victor and the Pirate: A Story of New Orleans During the War of 1812
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2026· 3 entries

Jun 30, 2026Documented record69% confidence

AOL: Jean Lafitte Police Chief dies

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May 27, 2026Documented record69% confidence

NOLA.com: Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival celebrates swamp life with a festival in the heart of the bayou

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Apr 29, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival returning in May with ‘unforgettable experience’

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2024· 1 entry

Aug 12, 2024Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo: Jean Lafitte residents adapt to life on the edge of survival

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2023· 1 entry

Sep 5, 2023Documented record69% confidence

WVUE FOX 8 News: Jean Lafitte leaders break ground on new tidal surge levee project

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2022· 1 entry

Oct 25, 2022Documented record69% confidence

WWL-TV: Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival Updates Music Lineup

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2021· 1 entry

Oct 31, 2021Documented record69% confidence

MutualArt.com: Jean Lafitte

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2000· 1 entry

2000Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

By Leisure Books (first published November 1, 1985)

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1980· 1 entry

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The manuscript was donated to the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center in Texas

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1958· 2 entries

1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Laflin self-published an English translation of the journal

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1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Anthony Quinn directed a remake of The Buccaneer, starring Yul Brynner as Lafitte, and Charlton Heston as General Andrew Jackson

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1950· 1 entry

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Paul Henreid starred in another movie about Jean Lafitte entitled Last of the Buccaneers

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

John Andrechyne Laflin approached the Missouri Historical Society with a French-language manuscript he claimed was a journal Lafitte kept from 1845 until 1850

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1947· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1947Documented record75% confidence

“Victor and the Pirate: A Story of New Orleans During the War of 1812”

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1909· 1 entry

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A man was given a six-year prison sentence for fraud after swindling thousands of dollars from people, by claiming that he knew where the Lafitte treasure was buried and taking their money for the promise to find it

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1826· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1826Documented record86% confidence

Died 1826-01-01.

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1823· 2 entries

1823Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And eventually changed his name to Lorenzo Ferrer, moving first to Mississippi and then Lincolnton, where Ferrer died in 1875

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1823Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Prevented his becoming obsolete; by 1825 piracy had been essentially eradicated in the Gulf of Mexico, and "the new world of the Gulf simply had no room for [his] kind

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1821· 1 entry

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The schooner USS Enterprise was sent to Galveston to remove Lafitte from the Gulf

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1817· 1 entry

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Jean founded a new colony on Galveston Island named Campeche

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1816· 1 entry

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To gain information regarding the attitudes of residents of the Mississippi River valley toward American expansion into Texas

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1815· 1 entry

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Lafitte began a public relationship with his mistress, Catherine (Catiche) Villard, a free woman of color

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1814· 3 entries

Dec 1, 1814Documented record66% confidence

Discovered the city had not created any defenses

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Sep 13, 1814Documented record66% confidence

Commodore Daniel Patterson set sail aboard the USS Carolina for Barataria

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Sep 3, 1814Documented record66% confidence

The British ship HMS Sophie fired on a pirate ship returning to Barataria

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1812· 2 entries

Jun 18, 1812Documented record66% confidence

The United States declared war on Great Britain

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The United States and the United Kingdom went to war

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1776· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1776Documented record86% confidence

Born 1776.

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