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Filibusters, pirates & privateers of the early Texas Coast /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epperson, Jean L. (Author)
Corporate Author: Liberty County Historical Commission (Tex.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hardin, Tex. : Liberty County Historical Commission, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Laffite, Jean.
Laffite, Pierre, > -1826?
Aury, Luis.
Perry, Henry.
Pirates > Texas > Gulf Coast > History > 19th century.
Privateering > Texas > Gulf Coast > History > 19th century.
Filibusters > History.
Gulf Coast (Tex.) > History > 19th century.
Pirates > Texas > Mexique, Côte du golfe du > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Flibustiers > Histoire.
Mexique, Côte du golfe du (Tex.) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Filibusters.
Pirates.
Privateering.
Texas > Gulf Coast.
1800-1899
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Col. Henry Perry on Bolivar and 1816 maps
  • Corsairs on Galveston Bay, Aury and the Laffites
  • The final years of Jean and Pierre Laffite
  • Some associates of Perry, Aury, and the Laffites
  • General James Long
  • Ramon Lafon, the founder of Port Isabel and the three pirates Lafon
  • Related topics to the major characters
  • Stanley Faye, a modern biographer of pirates
  • Who was John Andrechyne Laffite?
  • Thoughts on the Jean Laffite journal
  • When did Jean Laffite leave Galveston?
  • Maison Rouge and the Pride: myth or fact?
  • Jean Laffite and the schooner Pegasus
  • Testimony of the three escaped prisoners from Galveston
  • Jean Laffite's flags flown at Galveston
  • Mysterious painting in the Cabildo
  • The Telfer portrait of Jean Laffite
  • Pirate portrait found in Galveston
  • Paul Bouet Laffitte family of Bayou Pierre
  • Laffittes Louisiana were really Bouets
  • Where was Champ d'Asile?
  • Champ d'Asile cannon and maps
  • Manuel Gallardo and Callo de Gallardo
  • Jean Laffite historic marker
  • La Balize, Louisiana.