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Saint Malo was only one of the Filipino settlements in the Southern United States. The other settlements were the Manila Village on Barataria Bay in the Mississippi Delta by the Gulf of Mexico; Alombro Canal and Camp Dewey in Plaquemines Parish; and Leon Rojas, Bayou Cholas, and Bassa Bassa in Jefferson Parish, all in Louisiana. The oldest of these settlements, however, was Saint Malo. But Manila Village on Barataria Bay was considered to be the largest and the most popular of them all. Houses on in Manila Village were built on stilts on a 50-acre (200,000 m2) marshland. Among the legacy introduced by the Filipinos was the production of dried shrimp, which is still produced by the Cajuns of Louisiana.
Louisiana was not the only place where Filipinos jumped ship. Others deserted and found homes in various parts of Mexico where many assimilated easily (e.g. marrying Mexicans) because of their fluency in Spanish.
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According to oral history and later cited by Filipino historians, the Manilamen took part in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 during the War of 1812. These men signed up with the French buccaneer, Jean Baptiste Lafitte to join the army of Major-General Andrew Jackson.
On January 8, 1815, a British army numbering about 8,000 men prepared to capture New Orleans, Louisiana. Under the command of Major-General Sir Edward M. Pakenham, the British soldiers were against the American army composed of only about 1,500 men under the command of General Jackson. According to historian Marina Espina, the American Army consisted of “regular army troops, state militia, western sharpshooters, two regiments and pirates from the Delta Swamps.” It has long been suspected (although not confirmed) that the these pirates may have been the Manilamen. These pirates were described as "Spanish fishermen" from the Lake Borgne area. The only known Spanish-speaking fishermen living in the area at that time were the Manilamen.
Due to the inconclusiveness of proving the identity of these pirates, the Filipinos' participation in the war has not been recognized in American history.
