The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
- ISBN-10
- 0156032597
- ISBN-13
- 9780156032599
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 706
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- William C. Davis
Description
From just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the New Orleanians who shopped for contraban
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