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JEAN LAFITTE

                Jean Lafitte was born around 1780.  Little is known of his childhood.  When he was in his twenties, he began a life of crime, specifically piracy.  He established a warehouse in New Orleans where he would sell goods taken by his older brother Pierre.  Pierre was a pirate in Read more…

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BLACKBEARD

The most famous pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy was born Edward Thach (more likely than Teach) in Bristol, Great Britain in 1680. He was a privateer (a legally sanctioned pirate encouraged to attack enemy shipping) during Queen Anne’s War. When the war ended he joined a pirate named Read more…

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