What followed was one of the most lucrative and heinous robberies of all time.
Aboard were not only the worshipers returning from their pilgrimage, but tens of millions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver. 7, 1695, the pirate ship Fancy, commanded by Every, ambushed and captured the Ganj-i-Sawai, a royal vessel owned by Indian emperor Aurangzeb, then one of the world’s most powerful men.
That ancient pocket change - the oldest ever found in North America - could explain how pirate Capt. “It’s a new history of a nearly perfect crime,” said Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist who found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown. The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world’s most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader. Sponsored: Eerie WW2 Photo Reveals Shocking Secret The whole thing may be a fabrication or perhaps a cruel joke by The Buzzard.A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet’s oldest cold cases. Regardless of its provenance, it has occupied the imaginations of innumerable people who have attempted to solve it, and it has prompted at least two significant treasure hunts. It may have nothing to do with the pirate Olivier Levasseur, and this is certainly the most straightforward explanation. It was in the ownership of a notary, according to Roncière. Of course, the cryptogram could be just another fake committed around the same time when the Palmer-Kidd maps and Guayacán ciphers appeared, both forgeries. Furthermore, even if the cipher is real it could be one last joke by a man doomed to die. While the cipher is not directly linked to Oak Island, the activity in which it may be involved shares certain characteristics and there is a possibility that some of the elements of the story come from that other famous supposed cache of treasure. Grave on Reunion believed to be that of Levasseur (Tonton Bernardo / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) There are certain oddities in the story which invite skepticism, such as the loss of the original necklace, or the 200 year gap between Levasseur’s death and Cruise-Wilkins picking up the thread of the tale. If you are thinking this all seems too good to be true, then there are some who would agree with you. A Historical Fantasy or A Puzzle to be Solved? He died on May 3, 1977, before cracking the final code. Further, the treasure chamber must be reached at a certain point at low tide, with the water being dammed to prevent flooding.Ĭruise-Wilkins searched for and dug in the island of Mahe until his death, but never found anything in a cave except antique rifles, a few scattered coins, and the desiccated bodies of long dead pirates. Various tasks, reflecting Hercules’s Labors, were to be completed in a precise order to access the treasure chamber. Cruise-Wilkins believed that the code is based on Masonic symbols, and claimed to have uncovered a link between the Zodiac, Solomon’s Clavicles, and Hercules’s Twelve Labours, an ungodly mish-mash of symbology unlikely to have come from a professional pirate. But there, Levasseur learned of an opportunity to turn his fortunes around: a wealthy French trader was anchored in the adjacent Paranagua Bay.Įarly work by Cruise-Wilkins produced some wild suggestions. The skirmishes had taken their toll and his crew were reduced in number with a further ten being murdered at Ubatuba. He raced from safe harbor to safe harbor, at Cananeia, at Ilha Grande and at Ubatuba, always driven on by the relentless Portuguese. However, Levasseur’s actions had brought the attention of the Portuguese authorities and his ship, the La Louise was forced to flee from a Portuguese boat. Levasseur left the crew of the ship on their destroyed vessel to die, and brought the 240 slaves to shore on an island off the coast of Macae near Rio de Janeiro. One of his more famous prizes was a slave ship from Angola, taken off Brazil’s southern coast with its live cargo.
After a year working with Hornigold, the gang parted ways and Levasseur set up his own outfit.
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