Lafitte's ships operated primarily in the Gulf of Mexico but Cofresi's base was in Puerto Rico where he was considered a type of Robin Hood by many Puerto Ricans.

Though Lafitte tried to warn Barataria of a British attack, the American authorities successfully invaded in 1814 and captured most of Lafitte's fleet.

A number of details about Jean Lafitte's early life are obscure and often contradictory.

Acknowledging that details of Lafitte's first twenty years are sparse, Davis speculates that Lafitte spent much time at sea as a child, probably aboard ships owned by his father, a known trader.

Davis places Lafitte's brother Pierre in Saint-Domingue in the late 1790s and early 19th century.

The Coulée Trief name involves Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious person believed to have been one of Jean Lafitte's pirates, who built a cabin on the coulee, about six miles west of Crowley, Louisiana, about 1816.

The history of this region is filled with stories of the early Midwestern Settlers from Kansas, Illinois and Iowa to the French Canadians ( Cajuns ) to Jean Lafitte's pirates along the Old Spanish Trail.

Archives and displays show development of region, artifacts, furniture, Jean Lafitte's journals, and 1826 census.

* Jean Lafitte's pirate brig, the Pride from 1815 to 1816.

Other notable New Orleanians here include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole playboy who brought the game of craps to the United States ; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates ; and Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess.

Jean Lafitte's Black Smith Shoppe in New Orleans, Louisiana some claim to be the oldest bar continuously operating before 1775.

Bowie made three trips to Lafitte's compound on Galveston Island.

In 1819, 300 Karankawa warriors tried to retrieve one of their women from Lafitte's men at the Maison Rouge compound.

With Lafitte's lack of assistance, the expedition soon ran low on provisions.

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a site in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a tavern located on the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street.

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop has a reputation as a great gameday bar for college and pro sporting events.

They made three trips to Lafitte's compound on Galveston Island, where they bought smuggled slaves, then brought the slaves directly to a customhouse and informed on himself.

One exception was helping the Mexican Juarez against French troops of Emperor Maximilian, as occurred in radio episodes such as " Supplies for Juarez " ( 18 September 1939 ), " Hunted by Legionnaires " ( 20 September 1939 ) and " Lafitte's Reinforcements " ( 22 September 1939 ).

One of the earliest settlers in the region was Anson Taylor, namesake of Taylor Lake, who supplied Lafitte's Galveston colony with produce and game from around Armand Bayou ( though his homestead was actually near the Trinity River ).

According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.

His first biographer Jack Bracelin reports that this was a watershed in Gardner's life, and that a previous academic interest in spiritualism and life after death thereafter became a matter of firm personal belief for him.

He is also known for his columns and blogs, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics.

According to one biographer, Jack Warner's initial doubts about the project were quelled when he met Rin Tin Tin, " who seemed to display more intelligence than some of the Warner comics.

One biographer writes, " Throughout his life, Jack had been warmed by Sam's sunshiny optimism, his thirst for excitement, his inventive mind, his gambling nature.

Animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, while embraced by cartoon lovers, " were always stepchildren at Warner Bros ." As biographer Bob Thomas wrote, " Jack Warner ... considered cartoons no more than an extraneous service provided to exhibitors who wanted a full program for their customers.

Jack Larson, however, told biographer Beaver: " Anyone who thought another season of Superman would make George Reeves happy didn't know George.

Critic Jack Sullivan has kinder words for Tiomkin's score for Strangers than does biographer Spoto: " o seamlessly and inevitably does it fit the picture's design that it seems like an element of Hitchcock's storyboards ", he writes It is a score that " goes largely uncelebrated.

Among those in attendance were Secretary of State Colin Powell, international relations theorist John Mearsheimer, journalist Chris Hedges, former ambassador and career Foreign Service officer Jack F. Matlock, Jr., and Kennan's biographer, John Lewis Gaddis.

*: Mark Evanier ( screenwriter, Jack Kirby biographer, and Kirby's assistant during the Fourth World comics ):

* Earle Labor-Official biographer of novelist Jack London ; curator of the Jack London Museum in Shreveport.

Its columnists include Larry Gabriel ; journalism professor Jack Lessenberry ; and authorized Alice Cooper and The Stooges biographer Jeffrey Morgan.

According to one biographer, Jack Warner's initial doubts about the project were quelled when he met Rin Tin Tin, " who seemed to display more intelligence than some of the Warner comics.

Jack White contributed a quote to Iggy biographer Paul Trynka's liner notes to the reissue, in which White dubbed Fun House " by proxy the definitive rock album of America ".

Carr always insisted, and Burroughs believed, that he never had sex with Kammerer ; Jack Kerouac biographer Dennis McNally wrote that Kammerer " was a Doppelgänger whose sexual desires Lucien would not gratify ; their connection was an intertwined mass of frustration that hinted ominously of trouble.

Earle Labor ( born 1928 ) is the official biographer of novelist Jack London and curator of the Jack London Museum in Shreveport.

Davis biographer Jack Chambers described the album as " a new score, with its own integrity, order and action.

McCabe ’ s biographer Jack McHarg said that the innings “ was a sort of encyclopedia of attacking batsmanship, a triumph of character, technique and judgement ”.

Some of the many musicians and notable jazz figures that appeared at the JCT were Jack Wilson ( piano ); Bill Hardman ( trumpet ); Junior Cook ( tenor sax ); Tommy Turrentine ( trumpet ); Charles McPherson ( alto sax ); Mickey Tucker ( piano ); Peter Leitch ( guitar ); Clifford Jordan ( tenor sax ); Mark Elf ( guitar ); Lou Donaldson ( alto sax ); Leroy Williams ( drums ); Vernel Fournier ( drums ); Hal Dotson ( bass ); Jamil Nassar ( bass ); Chris Anderson ( piano ); Lon Chaney ( tap-dancer ); Jimmy Slyde ( tap-dancer ); Francis Paudras ( biographer of pianist Bud Powell ); and jazz patroness Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter who would park her silver Bentley convertible sports car in front of the club.

Henry's biographer C. Warren Hollister suggests the possibility that the saintly ascetic Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, was in part responsible for Henry's education ; Henry was consistently in the bishop's company during his formative years, ca 1080 – 86.

The biographer William C. Davis reports a different childhood for Lafitte.

Some suggested she was handicapped by extreme jealousy while an early biographer of Harte, Henry C. Merwin, privately concluded that she was " almost impossible to live with ".

The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, & C. His leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling.

According to professor of political science Linda C. Gugin, a Minton biographer, in practice the committee's investigations were politically motivated and directed against groups that were challenging New Deal legislation.

The modern biographer of Henry I of England, C. Warren Hollister, called him " an honest and trustworthy guide to the history of his times ".

She was a good friend of C. S. Lewis, who admired her poetry and once said, according to his friend and biographer George Sayer, that if he was the kind of man who got married, he would have wanted to marry Ruth Pitter.

Douglas Gresham ( born Douglas Howard Gresham ; November 10, 1945 ) is an American-born British biographer and film producer, resident in Malta, and one of the two stepsons of C. S. Lewis.

Under Wood, his biographer G. C. Peden writes, " the slum clearance programme was pursued with energy, and overcrowding was greatly reduced.

Henry I's biographer C. Warren Hollister suggests the possibility that Osmund was in part responsible for Henry's education ; Henry was consistently in the bishop's company during his formative years, around 1080 to 1086.

A loyal subscriber since 1961, Reagan said it “ helped me stop being a liberal Democrat ,” calling it " must reading for conservatives who want to know what is really going on in Washington, D. C ." During the 1980 presidential campaign, Democrats released a document entitled " Ronald Reagan, Extremist Collaborator — An Exposé ," in which, according to biographer Lee Edwards, " mong the proofs of Reagan's extremism was that he read the conservative weekly Human Events.

Notable members of the organization's Board of Directors include journalist Fred Barnes, United Methodist theologian Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Princeton University ethicist Dr. Robert P. George, theologian Michael Novak and former papal biographer George Weigel.

While it has been presumed that Raymond took on the writing duties of the strip until a replacement could be found, biographer Tom Roberts instead believes that the strip was written by committee during editorial conference, a view R. C. Harvey believes is supported by the strips themselves.

However, in 1968, Hall's biographer Chauncey C. Loomis, a professor at Dartmouth College, made an expedition to Greenland to exhume Hall's body.

The war attracted independent adventurers, such as the Briton C. F. Henningsen, who served as Zumalacárregui ’ s chief bodyguard ( and later was his biographer ), or Martín Zurbano, a contrabandista or smuggler, who

With Kipps, The History of Mr Polly, and Tono-Bungay, his biographer David C. Smith has written, H. G.

Daniel Mark Epstein ( born 25 October 1948 in Washington, D. C .) is an American poet, dramatist and biographer.

This resulted in the Los Angeles Dodger games being carried on KFI and Dodger owner Walter O ' Malley becoming a board member of Earle C. Anthony, Inc., according to his biographer, Arthur Landing.

The date is often reported as May 7, but as former Supreme Court Justice Ramón C. Aquino, Abad Santos ' biographer put it, " At first it was thought that Abad Santos had been killed on May 7, 1942.

The bios in the DNB and ODNB do not differ greatly, except that the ODNB has R. C. Dallas as Elphinston's biographer in the 1809 edition of Gentleman's Magazine no.

Haydn's chief biographer, H. C. Robbins Landon, has written that this mass " is arguably Haydn's greatest single composition ".

Jean Edward Smith, Ph. D ( born October 13, 1932, Washington, D. C .) is professor at Marshall University and biographer.