Batteries Two and Three

The two Baratarian captains at these guns had very different afterlives. Dominique You, born about 1775 in Sète, served as a gunner in the French Revolutionary army and joined the 1802 expedition against Toussaint Louverture before reaching Louisiana and the Lafittes. After the pardons he settled in New Orleans, backed Jackson in politics, and in 1830 received a military funeral at public expense. Renato Beluche, born in New Orleans in 1780, later sailed for Bolívar, fought at Lake Maracaibo and Puerto Cabello, and died in Venezuela in 1860. His remains lie in the National Pantheon.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.3 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 4.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.3 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 4.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• In Memory of Major Samuel Spotts — steps away
• After the Battle — steps away
• Choctaw Nation — steps away
• U.S. Marines — steps away