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All people, places and things relating to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The name "Plaquemines," in French Creole, was derived from the Atakapa word piakimin, meaning the local fruit persimmon. The French used it to name a military post they built on the banks of the Mississippi River, as the site was surrounded by numerous persimmon trees. Eventually the name was applied to the entire parish ...
The Battle of the Head of Passes was a bloodless naval battle of the American Civil War. It was a naval raid made by the Confederate river defense fleet, also known as the “mosquito fleet” in the local media, on ships of the Union blockade squadron anchored at the Head of Passes. The mosquito fleet deployed three fire rafts, which were ignited and followed the ironclad ram CSS Manassas into the...
------------------------------------>>>=The Cognevich Family ProjectOne of the goals of this project is to find a link and establish a tie to the Konjevic family in Montenegro, Croatia or any other country that was once part of the former Yugoslavia. >>> Please help by adding all known people with the surname "Cognevich" to this project. # Štefan (Konjevic) Cognevich (1812 - 1860)# Alexandrine ...