7.9 d. Jean and Pierre Laffite
Two French brothers notorious for smuggling and slave trading also participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
Two French brothers notorious for smuggling and slave trading also participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
Juan San Maló (Jean St. Malo) was the leader of a group of self-liberated formerly enslaved people who founded their own maroon resistance community in the bayous and wetlands southeast of New Orleans, in present-day St. Bernard Parish.
P. G. T. Beauregard, born in St. Bernard Parish in 1818, was among the first prominent generals of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Louisiana native Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general.
The St. Bernard courthouse was constructed in 1939 when the parish seat was transferred from St. Bernard to Chalmette.
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