Barataria
Proper noun
Meaning
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Barataria
A town in Trinidad and Tobago - see Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago
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Like Barataria, Galveston was a seaward island that protected a large inland bay.
Film Part of the Barataria Preserve in Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve *Saxon's novel was adapted for the Cecil B. DeMille movie The Buccaneer (1938).
He brought all captured goods to Barataria.
He requested approval to raise a militia company to "disperse those desperate men on Lake Barataria whose piracies have rendered our shores a terror to neutral flags".
Jean Lafitte spent the majority of his time in Barataria managing the daily hands-on business of outfitting privateers and arranging the smuggling of stolen goods.
Ramsay (1996), p. 23. Barataria was far from the U.S. naval base, and ships could easily smuggle in goods without being noticed by customs officials.