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TIL of a historical marker on Galveston Island marking the site of the Battle of Three Trees in 1819: the pirate Jean Lafitte and 200 men battled with 300 Karankawa Indian warriors after the pirates kidnapped a Karankawa woman. The Karankawa retreated but the fate of the woman isn’t known.

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