The most successful pirates of the era were Jean Lafitte and Roberto Cofresi.

Jean Lafitte, New Orleans ' legendary pirate

Later in the 19th century, after the Golden Age of Piracy, Jean Lafitte became what is considered by many to be the last buccaneer due to his army of pirates and fleet of pirate ships which held bases in and around the Gulf of Mexico.

Jean Lafitte ( 1776 – 1823 ) was a French pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century.

Anonymous portrait claimed to be of Jean Lafitte in the early 19th century, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas

Jean Lafitte was likely born in 1782, although he was not baptized until 1786.

By 1806, several " Captain Lafitte " s operated in New Orleans ; Jean Lafitte was likely one of them.

In 1817, Aury returned from an unsuccessful raid against Spain to find Galveston occupied by the pirate Jean Lafitte.

During the island's earliest history it became the domain of Jean Lafitte, the famed pirate and American hero of the War of 1812.

* Jean Lafitte

* Jean Lafitte

One of the first major settlements in the area that is now Galveston County was the town of Campeche on Galveston Island, created by the pirate Jean Lafitte.

* Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve ( part, in Eunice )

Many street names near the battlefield bear the names of the chief participants, or take a pirate theme, since the pirate Jean Lafitte was considered to be a hero in the battle.

* Jean Lafitte National Historical Park ( part, in Chalmette )

* Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve ( part, in Thibodaux )

* Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve ( part, in Lafayette )

* 20px Louisiana Highway 45 – connects the West Bank with the towns in the southern portion of Jefferson Parish ( Jean Lafitte, Lafitte and Barataria )

* Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve ( part, in Marrero )

The Cedar Keys were used by Seminole Indians, by the Spanish as a watering stop for ships returning to Spain from Mexico, and by pirates, such as Jean Lafitte and Captain Kidd.

Later, Hernando de Soto, Narvaez and Juan Ortiz explored, and then pirates and buccaneers sailed the area, including José Gaspar, Juan Gomez and Jean Lafitte.

Jean Lafitte is a town on Bayou Barataria in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Woman with a Parasol, ( Camille and Jean Monet ), 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, ( Camille and Jean Monet ), 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Although the National Convention in 1792 had planned to transfer his remains to the Panthéon, they are, two centuries later, still resting between two other graves — those of the scholarly monks Jean Mabillon and Bernard de Montfaucon — in a chapel of the abbey.

There is a picture by Jean Baptiste Oudry ( 1686 – 1755 ) of " Misse ", one of two English whippets presented to Louis XV, in the Washington National Gallery and another, with her companion, " Turlu ", by the same artist in the Musée National de Fontainebleau.

Jean Metzinger, La Femme au Cheval, The Rider, Woman with a horse, 1911-1912, Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark.

The day was founded in 1988, by Dr. Robert Eichberg, his partner William Gamble, and Jean O ' Leary to celebrate the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier, in which 500, 000 people marched on Washington, DC, United States, for gay and lesbian equality.

Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.

The USTA National Tennis Center was renamed in honor of four-time tournament champion and tennis pioneer Billie Jean King during the 2006 US Open.

Eventually, leaders of all of these separate and fragmented Résistance organizations were gathered and coordinated by Jean Moulin, under the auspices of the National Council of Resistance ( CNR ), De Gaulle's formal link to the irregulars throughout occupied France.

The majority of resistance movements in France were unified after Jean Moulin's formation of the Conseil National de la Résistance ( CNR ) in May 1943.

It contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the U. S. Open tennis tournament ; Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball team ; the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, the Queens Theatre in the Park, the Queens Wildlife Center, and the New York State Pavilion.

After " Flushing meadows " became the ( secondary ) name of the tennis tournament itself, that portion of the park was subsequently named USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in the late 1930s when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger and with the support of the British and Americans, set up an international cinematographic festival.

* Acadian Cultural Center of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve

At the end of a conference on the constitution that was poised to end in deadlock Jean Chrétien, the federal justice minister, as well as Roy McMurtry and Roy Romanow, both provincial ministers, met in a kitchen in the National Conference Centre in Ottawa and sowed the seeds for a deal.

For 25 years, Mahwah hosted the A & P Tennis Classic, a tune up for the U. S. Open tennis tournament held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Forest Hills, Queens.

* Jean Westwood-a political figure who was the first female chair of the Democratic National Committee and worked on several presidential campaigns.

A federal park was established in 1907 to preserve the battlefield ; today it features a monument and is part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.

Burton was born in 1958, in the city of Burbank, California, to Jean Burton ( née Erickson ), the owner of a cat-themed gift shop, and Bill Burton, a former minor league baseball player who would later work for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department.

The strength of players like Brad Park, Jean Ratelle, Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert ( the last three constructing the famed GAG line meaning " goal-a-game ") would still carry them through the playoffs.

Upland is also very well known worldwide throughout the skateboarding culture as " Badlands " because of Upland's geographical location and mainly because it was the birthplace of Vertical Pool and Pipe Skateboarding. The city was home to The Pipeline Skate Park, which opened in 1977 by Stan and Jean Hoffman and was located on 1777 W. Arrow Highway.

E. Kerner Jr. City Park Multi-Purpose Complex is located in Jean Lafitte.

* In 1797 Jean Baptiste Chaboillez of the North West Company built a post on the south bank of the Pembina in what is now Pembina State Park.

Matheseos Libri VIII by Firmicus Maternus, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Park Ridge, Noyes Press, 1975.

* The Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana

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On 4 February 1944 he married Katharine Jean ( 16 January 1915-15 July 2008 ), the daughter of William Ingham Whitaker, of Pylewell Park, Lymington, Hampshire.

This signing was followed by the arrival of Jean Makoun from Houllier's former club Lyon, before Sunderland's Darren Bent was brought to Villa Park in a deal that broke the club's previous transfer record.

Petit Jean State Park is a state park in central Arkansas managed by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.

Petit Jean State Park is located atop Petit Jean Mountain on the Arkansas River in the area between the Ozark and Ouachita mountain ranges, in Conway County, Arkansas.

Petit Jean State Park provides a variety of events throughout the year, ranging from mountain man rendezvous, wildflower weekend, and camping weekends to the swap meet and auto show.

* Petit Jean State Park: History of Petit Jean Mountain