My knowledge of Lafitte was limited to The Buccaneer. That romanticised it but Lafitte was still pretty exotic - there were two of them, Frenchmen who worked in the Gulf off New Orleans. They smuggled items, particularly slaves, set up their own kingdoms, had mistresses and love children. They took part in the Battle of New Orleans but that was self serving - as was their spying for Spain, their involvement with freebooters. They were handsome, charismatic and met their deaths in battle.
A lot of detail here. I occasionally got lost following the names. Superbly researched.
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