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Jean Laffite and the Treaty of Ghent — Satirical Editorial of 1814
A rare 1828 book about Jean Laffite While angling in the old newspaper archives, the following wonderfully satirical editiorial about Jean Laffite and the War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent negotiations was discovered in the Nov. 11, 1814, issue of the Daily National Intelligencer of Washington, D.C. It was reprinted from the Weekly Aurora newspaper…