Batteries Two and Three

Sailors from the USS Carolina and Baratarian pirates allied with Jean Lafitte manned the cannons at Batteries 2 and 3, where their artillery experience proved invaluable despite General Andrew Jackson's earlier condemnation of the Baratarians as "hellish banditti." Dominique Youx and Renato Beluche led the Baratarians, and there is no evidence that Jean Lafitte himself was present at the battle. Batteries 2 and 3 were crucial in turning back the British attack along the river, while to their left stood local militias, including one unit of free men of color and another of Irish immigrants and members of the French Creole elite.

Chalmette, Louisiana · United States