re: Landrieu wants to give Robert E. Lee the ol' heave ho

Looks like New Orleans will just have to wipe the slate clean and start completely over since "The Father of New Orleans" was such a horrible white man.

Bienville

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In 1716 he led a campaign against the Natchez Indians, and two years later, after Cadillac’s recall, Bienville was restored to the position of commandant. At that time he founded the settlement of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, and four years later he made that city the new capital of the colony.

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During his second term as Louisiana commandant, he captured Pensacola from the Spanish and instituted a strict “Black Code” regulating the conduct of black slaves.

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