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.

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* 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.

The Jean Lafitte National Park Barataria Preserve is adjacent to Estelle.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).

The Mayor of Bayonne ( 1995 – 2007 ) is Jean Grenet of the centre-right UMP.

According to Jean Favier, Bouvines is " one of the decisive battles of history and symbolic of France ".

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

The 1780s saw the arrival of the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is believed to be of Haitian and French descent.

According to Jean Daniélou, this schema is inherited from a Judaeo-Christian esotericism, followed by the Apostles, which was only imparted orally to those Christians who could be trusted which such mysteries.

Jean Baudrillard has also been described as a critical theorist to the extent that he was an unconventional and critical sociologist ; this appropriation is similarly casual, holding little or no relation to the Frankfurt School.

He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.

In Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête it is Diana's power which has transformed and imprisoned the beast.

Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

Jean Bottero ( 1952 ) and others suggested that Ia in this case is a West Semitic ( Canaanite ) way of saying Ea, Enki's Akkadian name, associating the Canaanite theonym Yahu, and ultimately Hebrew YHWH.

But the first public screening of film ever is due to Jean Aimé " Acme " Le Roy, a French photographer.

However, the Vitagraph film-makers continued to be a little uneasy with the device, as a true POV shot is introduced by an explanatory intertitle, " What they saw in the house across the court " in Larry Trimble's Jean and the Waif, made at the end of 1910.

Urologist Jean Fourcroy writes that women in countries that practise FGM call it one of the " three feminine sorrows ": the first sorrow is the procedure itself, followed by the wedding night when a woman with Type III has to be cut open, then childbirth when she has to be cut again.

" Michel De Villeneuve " had contracts with Jean Frellon for that work, and the Servetus scholar-researcher Francisco Javier González Echeverría presented research that became an accepted communication in the International Society for the History of Medicine which concluded that Michael De Villeneuve ( Michael Servetus ) is the author of the commentaries of this edition of Frellon, in Lyon.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

* Jean Charest, born of an Irish-Canadian mother, is Premier of Quebec, Canada.

He is later joined by Henry " Hank " McCoy, Jean Grey, and Warren Worthington III as the founding members of the X-Men.

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Jardines is controlled by the Keswick family, who are direct descendants of William Jardine's sister Jean through the marriage of her daughter to Thomas Keswick, father of William Keswick, an early Tai-pan of the firm.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.