Hola amigo
In answer to your comments
I would like to add that the amount of Booty which arrived back to England...did not take into account the Plunder from the Jesuit Cathedral or the Populace.
Sanchez-Galarraga, Jorge, Luis de Velasco - Siege of Havana, 1762, Seven Years War Association Journal Vol. XII No. clearly states total value of treasure taken 1,828,116 Spanish Pesos and merchandise valued around 1,000,000 Spanish Pesos. ( Merchandise would be of goods in private hands )Are you claiming the Spanish Commander lied about how much was taken or part of an masonic conspiracy?
And of the San Carlos 80 and Santiago 80 Destroyed on stocks at Havana, Did Sanchez-Galarraga, Jorge, Luis de Velasco lie about that too.
And of this alleged Jesuit treasure? ( always the Jesuits )
Jesuit college of San José in Havana (1721-1767), now Havana Cathedral. There was no mission in Havana because all the native people if the island had died of disease. The college there acted as staging post to send missionaries to Florida. The church was still in construction 1744 -1777 at the time of British invasion in 1762.The cathedral It only consecrated in 1782 just 5 years after the Jesuits had been expelled in 1767, Money and assets including the collage and cathedral, including a farm and sugar mill amounted only to 500000 pesos. So unless you have verifiable document you are only speculating that the Jesuits had large amounts money. Fact remains they was one of poorest compared to missions in other parts of Americas. They was so poor it took 18 years to raise the money to build the cathedral. They still never finished the building before they was expelled.
Source history of nation volume two Havana: Historia de la nacion Cubana. 1958 page 68-69
The Marlborough was later found and scuttled just off Oak Island!
Where is you source for that reference
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While it true the fleet after leaving Havana would of used the Gulf stream up the eastern seaboard of America and sailed past nova Nova Scotia from Newfoundland. I have found no reference Marlborough scuttled off oak island?
But how far off?
https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=3183
The only vessel called Marlbrough known to have sunk off was the Marlbrough 1898.
In November 1762 MARLBOROUGH sailed for England with other warships, Spanish prizes and about 50 transports. After losing contact with Ad. POCOCK, she met very heavy weather and on the 29th she had to be abandoned in a sinking condition. All her people were taken off by Capt. GRAVES of the ANTELOPE (50) and she was destroyed.
So it was not a particular mystery why the British fleet on the way back to England sailed east of Nova Scotia .
In the British archives at Kew there is following reference to ADM 346/1/1
Description: HMS Antelope : assigned 'Thomas Graves' and 'Robert Nicholson'; 27 August 1762 to December 1762; Newfoundland and Portugal. HMS Antelope was the ship that rescued the captain and crew of the Marlbrough that was out in gulf stream amigo not inshore off Oak island.
At best only speculation that they took treasure to oak island.
With all Admirals on "board" (Shirley, Keppel, Anson, Pollock) the lie presented, that these ships lost was not due to battle but in an unexpected storm was accepted by the War Commission.
Anson had no reason to be involved in such deception? Anson died 6 June 1762 (aged 65) at Moor Park, Hertfordshire, England. This alleged deception occurred 29th November 1762. Keppel and Pollock was well rewarded both was loyalists so any speculation of propriety is just imaginative speculation at it best.
In conclusion without any sources of your claims you are just weaving real events into fitting into your pet theory.
Kanacki
