Famous Haitians (encore)

[MDeibert*]

In continuing evidence that Haiti is, in a strange way, the center of the world, as I was reading Robert V. Remini's "The Battle of New Orleans," which recounts Andrew Jackson's victory over the British during the War of 1812. Therein I encountered for the first time the tidbit that the Laffite brothers - Alexandre, Pierre and Jean - buccaneers whose support was invaluable in the American victory over the British during the battle, were in fact born in Port-au-Prince in the late 1700's as the children of refugees of the Spanish Inquisition and educated at military schools in Martinique.