Historical Portraiture Can Be Vindictive
The case of French privateer Louis-Michel Aury, a bold man whose only picture makes him look like a Child of the Corn
In researching the early history of Galveston again for an upcoming article, I was reminded that the first pirate / privateer / magnificent bastard of the seas to take claim of the island was not Jean Lafitte, but the equally swashbuckling but all-but-forgotten Louis-Michel Aury.
A Parisian and veteran of Napoleon’s West Indian naval fleet, in less than…
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