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Author | : Tallant, Robert |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781455610518 |
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Jean Lafitte left behind many a legend for generations to follow in thepages of Louisiana history. Treasure hunters still speculate about the site ofpirated loot buried under French Quarter homes or sunk in the Barataria swamps.His notorious reputation was born of tales like these of the blacksmith andsuspect pirate. But regardless of whatever the storytellers may repeat, thereis one legend that does survive the test of authenticity, the story of how JeanLafitte and his men were heroes at the Battle of New Orleans against theinvading British forces during the War of 1812.In The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans , authorRobert Tallant has given younger readers a chance to relive the excitement,romance, and thrill of those days when the Barataria pirates threatened rivertraffic and New Orleans felt the threat of seige by the British. Thisenthralling story from the pages of history is delightfully told with anemphasis on helping children understand the political events of the time aswell as the social climate of the city in the early-nineteenth century.The story reveals the speculative past of Lafitte and how he hid behind thefacade of his blacksmith's shop in the Vieux Carr . He held bittercontempt for his enemy Governor Claiborne until that famous battle, in whichthe pirate-turned-hero joined Gen. Andrew Jackson to protect the city from theincoming assault of British soldiers. Combining tales of pirates, mystery,battle, true events, and real people, this children's book is a thrillingchapter in American history.Robert Tallant (1909-1957) was one of Louisiana's best-known authors, andparticipated in the WPA Writers Project during the 1930s and 1940s. BesidesMardi Gras . . . As It Was, Tallant also wrote Voodoo in NewOrleans and The Voodoo Queen . With Lyle Saxon and EdwardDreyer he coauthored the famous collection Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folktales ofLouisiana.
Author | : Robert Tallant |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Robert Tallant, author of Mardi Gras...As It Was and a celebrated New Orleans historian, brings together the myths, legends, and historical accounts of the famed Jean Lafitte. A public menace to some and a local hero to others, the Crescent City's most notorious pirate left behind tales and adventures that will give young readers an insight into the life and history of the city during the early 19th century.
Author | : Lyle Saxon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Winston Groom |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2007-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400095662 |
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December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel the British in one of the greatest battles ever fought in North America.The defense of New Orleans fell to the backwoods general Andrew Jackson, who joined the raffish French pirate Jean Laffite to command a ramshackle army made of free blacks, Creole aristocrats, Choctaw Indians, gunboat sailors and militiamen. Together these leaders and their scruffy crew turned back a British force more than twice their number. Offering an enthralling narrative and outsized characters, Patriotic Fire is a vibrant recounting of the plots and strategies that made Jackson a national hero and gave the nascent republic a much-needed victory and surge of pride and patriotism.
Author | : Jane Lucas De Grummond |
Publisher | : Legacy Publishing (GA) |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Louisiana State Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 735 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0547350759 |
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An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review). At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, 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 US Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well-publicized auctions, the brothers became important members of a filibustering syndicate that included lawyers, bankers, merchants, and corrupt US officials. But this allegiance didn’t stop the Laffites from becoming paid Spanish spies, disappearing into the fog of history after selling out their own associates. William C. Davis uncovers the truth about two men who made their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780547350752 |
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An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review). At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, 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 US Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well-publicized auctions, the brothers became important members of a filibustering syndicate that included lawyers, bankers, merchants, and corrupt US officials. But this allegiance didn’t stop the Laffites from becoming paid Spanish spies, disappearing into the fog of history after selling out their own associates. William C. Davis uncovers the truth about two men who made their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.
Author | : Joseph Holt Ingraham |
Publisher | : Edizioni Savine |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
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The leading incidents upon which the present work is founded, are chiefly historical. With the pages of history, however, we have had to do, only so far as they could be made subservient to our tale, which does not profess to be, exclusively a tale, or history, of the times to which it is referred, but of an individual in some degree connected with them. Nor with the faithfulness of a biographer, have we portrayed the life of the personage whom we have taken for our hero. We have woven for our purpose a web of fact and fiction, unsolicitous to dye each thread with its own peculiar hue, to enable the curious reader thereby, the more readily to say which is which. But if he chooses to draw out either thread, to inspect it by itself, thinking thereby to judge better of thé texture of the whole, we have only to say—the web is his own ; and, that if his humour prompt him to break up the watch, the pieces may perhaps reward his curiosity, if they do not demonstrate his wisdom.
Author | : J H 1809-1860 Ingraham |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018-10-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780342537112 |
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