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Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf - Hardcover

Davis, William C.

 
9780151004034: Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 015100403X ISBN 13: 9780151004034
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry market and made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Later they became important members of a syndicate in New Orleans that included lawyers, bankers, merchants, and corrupt U.S. officials. But this allegiance didn't stop them from becoming paid Spanish spies, handing over information about the syndicate's plans and selling out their own associates.

In 1820 the Laffites disappeared into the fog of history from which they had emerged, but not before becoming folk heroes in French Louisiana and making their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The author of more than forty books, WILLIAM C. DAVIS is the director of programs at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He is also chief consultant for the A&E television series Civil War Journal and teaches history at Virginia Tech. He lives in Virginia.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
015100403X
ISBN 13 
9780151004034
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
720
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