the movie sounds familiar but I don't remember it.
I remember Jean Lafitte but I don't remember him as being a pirate!
a good pirate? that's a great story.
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the movie sounds familiar but I don't remember it.
I remember Jean Lafitte but I don't remember him as being a pirate!
a good pirate? that's a great story.
Yeah...Pretty sure. I'd have to look it up to be 100%--and we're headed out here pretty quick-- but I swear he helped out Andrew Jackson around the time of The Battle of New Orleans; which, as it turned out, was AFTER peace had already been declared back East.
wow to that last sentence..the communications of the day!
Yea...it could take WEEKS to get messages back and forth between Washington and New Orleans in those days.
I was thinking days! boy am I optimistic!
Yep...weeks. Horseback riders, or sailing ship...No telegraph for another 50+ years....