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Lafitte Hoard
Because of ancient political intrigues, North American geography and history has been extensively falsified and from day one of your education you have been successfully brainwashed to a degree where the truth is almost impossible to comprehend. Be my guest. Go ahead and laugh. You won, be the first.
Jean Lafitte just the name conjures visions of a swashbuckling pirate who, in daring raids, carried away great hoards of rich treasure to his island kingdom of Campeachy. He, the same pirate who cast his lot, and that of his men, with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. What a pirate! What a man!
There is one fantastic episode credited to Lafitte that keeps the Frenchman name alive to those interested in treasure hunting. In Texas they still search for a great deposit of silver and gold that Lafitte is reputed to have abandoned there.
In 1816 Jean Lafitte, who was reputed to be an agent of the Spanish government (Agent 13, to be exact), raided a Spanish vessel called the Santa Rosa. The Rosa was carrying a treasure cargo of silver bars and gold nuggets. After obtaining the valuable cargo, it is recorded that Lafitte contracted with a French freight hauler, one Nicholas Trammel, to take the loot inland.
As the story goes, Spanish authorities in San Antonio got wind of the daring theft and 200 Spanish army regulars were quickly dispatched to apprehend the raiders and to regain ownership of the bars and nuggets for the Crown of Spain. The king’s men caught up with the wagon train of Lafitte in the vicinity of Hendrick Lake, where a one-sided fight for the possession of the freight wagons took place. Only two of Trammel wagon drivers escaped with their lives. They eventually made their way back to Lafitte headquarters.
Unknown to the Spanish soldiers, according to the statement of one of the surviving raiders, Nicholas Trammel had been forewarned of the Spanish troops catching up to his train and had succeeded in taking the six wagons containing the treasure to the shore of Hendrick Lake where they were cut loose from the teams and rolled into the deep waters. There they were well hidden from view. Not knowing of this act, and not knowing the original size of the train, the soldiers took the remaining six wagons to San Antonio where the authorities concluded their information had been erroneous and that the treasure had been shipped by other means than the Santa Rosa consequently, now being safe.
There have been several extensive and costly searches made for Lafitte? hoard in today Hendrick Lake, Texas. According to old timers of the area, an attempt at salvage was made by a party in 1885 wherein efforts were made to drain the lake. A storm and heavy rainfall in the district flooded out their work and the enterprise was abandoned.
In 1895 three men from Mexico arrived on the lake scene and made another attempt to retrieve the treasure. Even though they purportedly had original documents stating the location, they too failed.
In 1958 a party of seekers used modern detection equipment to survey the lake area. The equipment indicated a metal deposit on the bottom, and a considerable number of old pieces of iron and discarded ranch equipment was retrieved. But no silver bars or gold nuggets came to the surface.
In 1966 a group armed with a large amount of data and a "genuine" map made the next attempt to gain fame and riches from the lake bottom. Their efforts were for naught.
Thus, the treasure of silver bars and gold nuggets of the famous pirate apparently remains where it was deposited and is still to be recovered.
Due to a considerable number of years spent in historical research, I have a far different view of Lafitte plunder. First, lets look at some of the data recorded. The date of the incident is important. In 1816 Texas was a part of New Spain, a colony of Spain. The people of New Spain were in revolt against the Crown. Although Lafitte was supposedly a Spanish agent, he was also French and stole wealth from the King of Spain. Just whose side was he on? Was it the side of the revolutionists or was he working for the French? After all, involved was a freight outfit owned and operated by Frenchmen. It should be noted that in 1816 all countries who had an interest in the continent were keeping a sharp eye on the New Spain revolution, and all were endeavoring by fair means or foul to gain any advantage or foothold that might further their interests at a later date. The countries involved were France, England and the United States.
Another and most significant perspective of the incident must be taken into consideration it is the most important fact of all, and this part of the article will be extremely difficult for the average reader to cope with or accept. In 1816, Texas was not in the same geographical location that it is today. If Lafitte treasure exists, that is why it has never been found.
Before this article continues, here is another statement that will cause most of you to either laugh about it or ridicule it: Because of ancient political intrigues, North American geography and history has been extensively falsified and from day one of your education you have been successfully brainwashed to a degree where the truth is almost impossible to comprehend. Be my guest. Go ahead and laugh. You won, be the first. But remember, there are a few who will ponder the foregoing statement instead of rejecting it and they may get rich.
The falsification of our record was accomplished by producing fake records and counterfeit maps over a period of several centuries. These same documents are what the learned ones now consider to be "historical treasures." Old fake Spanish maps located Texas in its approximate geographical position of today, when in actuality the territory was located far to the north. There was good reason for this deception. Spain was endeavoring to mislead the rest of the world as much as possible about its North American operations. In 1846 a great juggling of geography took place on the continent. This time it was to "straighten out" the original document deception operation. The Texas area is one example of this manipulation. It was the United States, with the collaboration of other nations, who accomplished a final geographical change in the latter half of the 19th century. For example, fake Spanish maps located Corpus Christi, Texas, on a gulf coastline. So at the end of the Mexican War, the United States named a town on today Gulf of Mexico Corpus Christi. In spite of the fact that the original town had been located far inland, any researcher looking at an ancient map or a new one would see nothing amiss.
There were a few minute flaws in all this complicated manipulation of geographical positions. Modern communication means have revealed some of these, which could not be foreseen in the early days. There was one problem that was probably apparent at the time, but could not be corrected. In fact, it probably was not considered important or may even perhaps have been considered undetectable. In spite of big government and bright minds moving documents and relocating places, many times the ordinary people of an area refused to relinquish old names. A name would be handed down from one generation to another. An instance of this comes to light in the record of Lafitte treasure. It is important because it proves the incident took place and that there was a record concerning the raid before 1846. Also it gives proof of the location before the 19th century geographical manipulation occurred. The true location of Hendrick Lake, Texas, in 1816, is in approximately 44 degrees and 40 minutes North latitude, 96 degrees and 30 minutes West longitude. That’s right. If Jean Lafitte’s hired teamsters dumped his silver and gold in a lake, they did so at a site in today’s Minnesota and it is still called Hendrick Lake.
One more note about the location: A modern-day treasure hunter states he has information that leads him to believe the treasure was not rolled into the lake, but into a nearby deep water stream, in today’s Texas, of course. Also, just recently a map dowser came up with strong signals at a lake close to Hendrick Lake, Minnesota. This site is just a short distance west in Oak Lake, S.D.
My research brings forth this following theory about the treasure. I believe the silver and gold came out of the Black Hills. It may have been hijacked from a vessel that was headed for the Gulf down today’s Missouri River. I believe Lafitte was heading for a Great Lakes port and eventually out of the continent.
Who knows. In those days everybody was double-crossing everyone else.
In 1821 U.S. Lieutenant Kearney kicked Lafitte out of his Campeachy settlement. At this time this site was now part of the newly formed Mexico, but already the United States was getting ready to take over the area. It was first-come, first-serve, and Uncle Sam was taking no chances with some other nation getting the first foothold.
There is much explanatory historical data missing with this piece. First, it is too complicated to explain in one article. In addition, I want to protect locations of treasure hidden by deceptive history for future stories.
This writing is not a piece of imaginary fiction. It is the result of many years of dedicated research inspired by a fantastic document and geographical discovery.
The question naturally arises, "If you are so sure of the location, why don’t you look for the treasure yourself?" The answer is simple. I live too far away. I have to earn a living and I am no longer a young rooster. But if I could afford to spend a month or two on location, I would never have written this article.TC
Lafitte Hoard
The treasure:
Six wagonloads of silver and gold.
How to find it:
Search the shorelines and edges of Hendrick Lake but not Hendrick Lake, Texas. The cache is located in the Hendrick Lake in Minnesota.
Sources:
True Treasure, Jan.-Feb. 1971 and March-April 1971; Treasure World, June-July 1970 and Dec.-Jan. 1975; Treasure, October 1982; Gold, fourth edition; Frontier Times, Sept. 1974; Driscoll, Farrar and Rinehart, Doubloons, 1930.
Link: http://www.lostgold.us/html/minnesota1.html
Because of ancient political intrigues, North American geography and history has been extensively falsified and from day one of your education you have been successfully brainwashed to a degree where the truth is almost impossible to comprehend. Be my guest. Go ahead and laugh. You won, be the first.
Jean Lafitte just the name conjures visions of a swashbuckling pirate who, in daring raids, carried away great hoards of rich treasure to his island kingdom of Campeachy. He, the same pirate who cast his lot, and that of his men, with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. What a pirate! What a man!
There is one fantastic episode credited to Lafitte that keeps the Frenchman name alive to those interested in treasure hunting. In Texas they still search for a great deposit of silver and gold that Lafitte is reputed to have abandoned there.
In 1816 Jean Lafitte, who was reputed to be an agent of the Spanish government (Agent 13, to be exact), raided a Spanish vessel called the Santa Rosa. The Rosa was carrying a treasure cargo of silver bars and gold nuggets. After obtaining the valuable cargo, it is recorded that Lafitte contracted with a French freight hauler, one Nicholas Trammel, to take the loot inland.
As the story goes, Spanish authorities in San Antonio got wind of the daring theft and 200 Spanish army regulars were quickly dispatched to apprehend the raiders and to regain ownership of the bars and nuggets for the Crown of Spain. The king’s men caught up with the wagon train of Lafitte in the vicinity of Hendrick Lake, where a one-sided fight for the possession of the freight wagons took place. Only two of Trammel wagon drivers escaped with their lives. They eventually made their way back to Lafitte headquarters.
Unknown to the Spanish soldiers, according to the statement of one of the surviving raiders, Nicholas Trammel had been forewarned of the Spanish troops catching up to his train and had succeeded in taking the six wagons containing the treasure to the shore of Hendrick Lake where they were cut loose from the teams and rolled into the deep waters. There they were well hidden from view. Not knowing of this act, and not knowing the original size of the train, the soldiers took the remaining six wagons to San Antonio where the authorities concluded their information had been erroneous and that the treasure had been shipped by other means than the Santa Rosa consequently, now being safe.
There have been several extensive and costly searches made for Lafitte? hoard in today Hendrick Lake, Texas. According to old timers of the area, an attempt at salvage was made by a party in 1885 wherein efforts were made to drain the lake. A storm and heavy rainfall in the district flooded out their work and the enterprise was abandoned.
In 1895 three men from Mexico arrived on the lake scene and made another attempt to retrieve the treasure. Even though they purportedly had original documents stating the location, they too failed.
In 1958 a party of seekers used modern detection equipment to survey the lake area. The equipment indicated a metal deposit on the bottom, and a considerable number of old pieces of iron and discarded ranch equipment was retrieved. But no silver bars or gold nuggets came to the surface.
In 1966 a group armed with a large amount of data and a "genuine" map made the next attempt to gain fame and riches from the lake bottom. Their efforts were for naught.
Thus, the treasure of silver bars and gold nuggets of the famous pirate apparently remains where it was deposited and is still to be recovered.
Due to a considerable number of years spent in historical research, I have a far different view of Lafitte plunder. First, lets look at some of the data recorded. The date of the incident is important. In 1816 Texas was a part of New Spain, a colony of Spain. The people of New Spain were in revolt against the Crown. Although Lafitte was supposedly a Spanish agent, he was also French and stole wealth from the King of Spain. Just whose side was he on? Was it the side of the revolutionists or was he working for the French? After all, involved was a freight outfit owned and operated by Frenchmen. It should be noted that in 1816 all countries who had an interest in the continent were keeping a sharp eye on the New Spain revolution, and all were endeavoring by fair means or foul to gain any advantage or foothold that might further their interests at a later date. The countries involved were France, England and the United States.
Another and most significant perspective of the incident must be taken into consideration it is the most important fact of all, and this part of the article will be extremely difficult for the average reader to cope with or accept. In 1816, Texas was not in the same geographical location that it is today. If Lafitte treasure exists, that is why it has never been found.
Before this article continues, here is another statement that will cause most of you to either laugh about it or ridicule it: Because of ancient political intrigues, North American geography and history has been extensively falsified and from day one of your education you have been successfully brainwashed to a degree where the truth is almost impossible to comprehend. Be my guest. Go ahead and laugh. You won, be the first. But remember, there are a few who will ponder the foregoing statement instead of rejecting it and they may get rich.
The falsification of our record was accomplished by producing fake records and counterfeit maps over a period of several centuries. These same documents are what the learned ones now consider to be "historical treasures." Old fake Spanish maps located Texas in its approximate geographical position of today, when in actuality the territory was located far to the north. There was good reason for this deception. Spain was endeavoring to mislead the rest of the world as much as possible about its North American operations. In 1846 a great juggling of geography took place on the continent. This time it was to "straighten out" the original document deception operation. The Texas area is one example of this manipulation. It was the United States, with the collaboration of other nations, who accomplished a final geographical change in the latter half of the 19th century. For example, fake Spanish maps located Corpus Christi, Texas, on a gulf coastline. So at the end of the Mexican War, the United States named a town on today Gulf of Mexico Corpus Christi. In spite of the fact that the original town had been located far inland, any researcher looking at an ancient map or a new one would see nothing amiss.
There were a few minute flaws in all this complicated manipulation of geographical positions. Modern communication means have revealed some of these, which could not be foreseen in the early days. There was one problem that was probably apparent at the time, but could not be corrected. In fact, it probably was not considered important or may even perhaps have been considered undetectable. In spite of big government and bright minds moving documents and relocating places, many times the ordinary people of an area refused to relinquish old names. A name would be handed down from one generation to another. An instance of this comes to light in the record of Lafitte treasure. It is important because it proves the incident took place and that there was a record concerning the raid before 1846. Also it gives proof of the location before the 19th century geographical manipulation occurred. The true location of Hendrick Lake, Texas, in 1816, is in approximately 44 degrees and 40 minutes North latitude, 96 degrees and 30 minutes West longitude. That’s right. If Jean Lafitte’s hired teamsters dumped his silver and gold in a lake, they did so at a site in today’s Minnesota and it is still called Hendrick Lake.
One more note about the location: A modern-day treasure hunter states he has information that leads him to believe the treasure was not rolled into the lake, but into a nearby deep water stream, in today’s Texas, of course. Also, just recently a map dowser came up with strong signals at a lake close to Hendrick Lake, Minnesota. This site is just a short distance west in Oak Lake, S.D.
My research brings forth this following theory about the treasure. I believe the silver and gold came out of the Black Hills. It may have been hijacked from a vessel that was headed for the Gulf down today’s Missouri River. I believe Lafitte was heading for a Great Lakes port and eventually out of the continent.
Who knows. In those days everybody was double-crossing everyone else.
In 1821 U.S. Lieutenant Kearney kicked Lafitte out of his Campeachy settlement. At this time this site was now part of the newly formed Mexico, but already the United States was getting ready to take over the area. It was first-come, first-serve, and Uncle Sam was taking no chances with some other nation getting the first foothold.
There is much explanatory historical data missing with this piece. First, it is too complicated to explain in one article. In addition, I want to protect locations of treasure hidden by deceptive history for future stories.
This writing is not a piece of imaginary fiction. It is the result of many years of dedicated research inspired by a fantastic document and geographical discovery.
The question naturally arises, "If you are so sure of the location, why don’t you look for the treasure yourself?" The answer is simple. I live too far away. I have to earn a living and I am no longer a young rooster. But if I could afford to spend a month or two on location, I would never have written this article.TC
Lafitte Hoard
The treasure:
Six wagonloads of silver and gold.
How to find it:
Search the shorelines and edges of Hendrick Lake but not Hendrick Lake, Texas. The cache is located in the Hendrick Lake in Minnesota.
Sources:
True Treasure, Jan.-Feb. 1971 and March-April 1971; Treasure World, June-July 1970 and Dec.-Jan. 1975; Treasure, October 1982; Gold, fourth edition; Frontier Times, Sept. 1974; Driscoll, Farrar and Rinehart, Doubloons, 1930.
Link: http://www.lostgold.us/html/minnesota1.html
