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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (/ ˌ l ɑː f iː ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/, French:), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the founder of the De La Salle Brothers. The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes; Italian: Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France ...
Battles/wars. Battle of New Orleans. Jean Lafitte ( c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte". This has become the common spelling in the United ...
Louisiana War Cross. Jeffrey Martin Landry (born December 23, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2024 as the 57th governor of Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th attorney general of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024 and as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district ...
December 21, 1965. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Most likely built as a house in the 1770s during the Spanish colonial period, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans. According to legend, the privateer ...
James Armistead Lafayette (born 1748 [1] or 1760 [2] – died 1830 [1] or 1832) [2] was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation. [3] [4] As a double agent, he reported the activities of Benedict Arnold after ...
Pierre Lafitte (1770–1821) was a pirate in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmith shop in New Orleans, his legitimate business. Pierre was historically less well known than his younger brother, Jean Lafitte. While not as much of a sailor as Jean, Pierre was the public face of the Lafitte operation ...
Dr. Ruth Smothers, MD, is an Internal Medicine specialist practicing in Lafayette, LA with 49 years of experience. This provider currently accepts 14 insurance plans including Medicare and Medicaid. New patients are welcome. Hospital affiliations include Iberia Medical Center.