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Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction A Corsair's Name Chapter One Vintage Bordeaux 1770-1803 Chapter Two New Men in a New World 1803-1806 Chapter Three Brothers United 1806-1809 Chapter Four Brothers in Business 1809-1811 Chapter Five Dawn of the Corsairs 1810-1811 Chapter Six Origins of the Laffite Fleet 1811-1813 Chapter Seven Lords of Barataria 1813-1814 Chapter Eight The Rise of the Filibusters 1814 Chapter Nine Patriots for a Price 1814 Chapter Ten The End of Barataria 1814 Chapter Eleven The Fight for New Orleans 1814-1815 Chapter Twelve Spies for Spain 1815-1816 Chapter Thirteen A Career of Betrayals 1815-1816 Chapter Fourteen Distant Horizons 1816 Chapter Fifteen The Birth of Galveston 1816-1817 Chapter Sixteen A Season of Treachery 1817 Chapter Seventeen Deadly Friends 1817-1818 Chapter Eighteen Winds of Change 1818 Chapter Nineteen The Dying Dream 1819 Chapter Twenty Farewell to Galveston 1820 Chapter Twenty-One The Last Voyage 1820-1823 Chapter Twenty-Two The Legend of the Laffites Appendix The Journal of Jean Laffite Endnotes Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Laffite, Jean.
Laffite, Pierre, d. 1826?.
Pirates -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Pirates -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Biography.
Privateering -- Mexico, Gulf of -- History -- 19th century.
New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815.
Louisiana -- History -- 1803-1865 -- Biography.
Mexico, Gulf of -- History -- 19th century.