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Bicentennial of Jean Laffite’s Takeover of Galveston Is April 8

Apr 7, 2017

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Privateer Jean Laffite, a hero of the Battle of New Orleans, took control of the Island of Galveston in a bloodless coup two hundred years ago this April 8, taking the small pirate base which had been used by Louis-Michel Aury as a point from which to prey against Spanish shipping. Although he had ostensibly…

Beverly Chew: the Man Behind the Curtain in Early New Orleans

Nov 19, 2015

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Pam Keyes

in American History, general history, History, Legal History, Louisiana History, Nautical History, Texas History

Life was good for the New Orleans business firm of Chew & Relf in the early 1800s: young partners Beverly Chew and Richard Relf controlled a virtual monopoly of the banking, shipping, trading, insurance, and smuggling business in the port city until around 1809, when the Laffite brothers came to town, quickly and systematically cutting…

Talk at Laffite Society Meeting October 14, 2014

Oct 12, 2014

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Governor

in Legal History

There will be a talk about the effect of the changing laws about privateering on the career of Jean Laffite October 14, 2014 at 6 pm at the Laffite Society Meeting at the Meridian Towers in Galveston, Texas. The Effect of the Changing Laws Concerning Privateering on the Career of Jean Laffite Today, very few…

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Bicentennial of Jean Laffite’s Takeover of Galveston Is April 8

Beverly Chew: the Man Behind the Curtain in Early New Orleans

Talk at Laffite Society Meeting October 14, 2014