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BATTLE OF THE "THIREE TREES."
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were occasional balls and other festive scenes in which
this mixed multitude participated. Lafitte's favorite ship
was the "Pride," a foretopsail schooner, captured from
the slavers. She mounted fourteen guns, and was always
accompanied by two felluccas, and an armed boat, the
Calebra. These buccaneers sometimes quarreled among
themselves. On one occasion, Jim Campbell charged
Marotte with concealing a box of gold watches taken in
one of their prizes. When Lafitte was informed of the
theft, he took up the quarrel, and when Marotte gave
him an impertinent answer, a challenge passed between
them. The two were preparing for a duel, when Marotte
confessed the theft. Lafitte so far pardoned him as to
spare his life, but expelled him from the island, thus
illustrating the honor among that class of men. On
another occasion, the crew of the " Pride " were preparing
for a mutiny. Lafitte, who was surrounded with informers,
was notified of the intended mutiny, and was so
thoroughly prepared, that at the first sign of an outbreak,
he killed five or six of the men, and reduced the others
to subjection.
In 1819, James Gaines visited the island in the interest
of General Long, in the hope of enlisting the co-operation
of the pirate-chief in Long's expedition; but Lafitte,
warned by the fate of Mina and Perry, while he expressed
a sympathy with Long, did not join his enterprise. It
was while Gaines was on the island that the battle of the
"Three Trees" was fought. Some of Lafitte's men had
taken forcible possession of a Caranchua squaw, and the
Indians, for revenge, killed some of the buccaneers. It
was said a party of 300 of them were encamped near the
Three Trees. Lafitte marched against them with two
pieces of artillery and 200 men. Fighting continued for
two or three days, when the Indians, after suffering severe
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/139/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .