Blindbowman I beg your indulgence;
First, before we connect Pegleg into any of this, perhaps this relatively brief article on the original Pegleg would be helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Smith
It seems unlikely that Smith is involved here, at least in my view.
Next, before we connect the interesting historical figure King Henry (also known as Henry the Navigator) into this, we ought to keep in mind that there is no evidence to suggest that Henry even knew the Americas existed. Henry as a Templar? Look at it another way, suppose that king Henry the navigator DID know of the Americas, then why did he not immediately launch into a vast effort to exploit the knowledge? To me, (and sometimes things are fuzzy to me) this does not make sense. If you are interested in the mysterious Templars and think there could be some connection to America, I would suggest that you have the best place to find evidence of such Templar presence MUCH closer to where you live than in remote Arizona - look in Nova Scotia, Oak Island, Massachusetts, etc.
I don't mean to be discouraging when you are enthusiastic and optimistic in your theories, just that I cannot always make the same conclusions that you have arrived at based on what we see.
Blindbowman wrote:
if the gold was there and they found it they would try to change the markings to make them selfs look like the true owners much like changeing a brand on a cow .......
As in the gold bars of LaFrance, remember those marks were identical on all of them, and no other marks were noted. There does not appear to be any reason to think that the marks had been altered, nor that any blackpowder had been replaced, nor that any finder had not simply removed the bars - as anyone who found them would. So I am NOT saying that your theory or ideas are absolutely impossible, only that a simpler explanation (and much more recent in time) appears to be a more logical answer.
Blindbowman wrote:
what we beleive could be nitro could in fact be oil of some kind
Yes this is possible, we have only the word of LaFrance, but there seems little reason to think he would mis-identify nitroglycerin, which can easily and readily be ID-ed even by a dolt like me by wetting your finger with it and snapping the droplet against a hard surface - if it goes 'pop' it is likely nitro.
Blindbowman also wrote:
it could have been takeing from the treasure trove of tayopa and put ou there to scare people it worked ... but think about this the vents are protected much in the same way .. their nature is dangerous ...
Well it is POSSIBLE this could have been removed from Tayopa and put there to frighten people, but this seems very unlikely - again nitroglycerin had not been invented when Tayopa was being worked, Tayopa is quite a distance from the Superstitions, and if it is hidden in a cave there is no reason to have something to "frighten" any potential visitor since you should not expect anyone to find it. Why should we conclude that LaFrance had mis-identified nitroglycerin for oil? I cannot address the vents, as I have not seen them.
Blindbowman wrote:
yet we see them both related threw the code ...
You may be seeing a connection through a "code" but I don't even see a code, only an unusual makers mark.
Blindbowman also wrote:
we could agree the stones could have had writeing added to them . but the years of when they were made and why changes from one era to the next .. who could have made them is not the question . the question IMHO is when did the Navigator henry make them and why hide it the way they did ... is this aztec gold and silver taken by the templars and melted for their reasons ... maybe thats why they ere massacred ...
I would agree that the stones COULD have had writing added to them, but have zero proof this is the case; who could have made them is a very open question (we all have our theories, my own is they are of relatively recent manufacture) but I cannot make the connection to prince/king Henry of Portugal (the Navigator) as the creator of them as I see no good evidence to support that idea. If you check your time-line again, you will see a time problem with having the Templars seizing treasures from the Aztecs - for their "empire" was founded in about 1248, and at that time they were NOT in control of vast areas, just a three-city alliance that grew over the centuries. The Aztecs also kept records and had prophecies, and have no record (that we know of) of any contact between Aztecs and foreigners from across the seas. They really did not become an "empire" until after 1440, under the rule of Montezuma I. Lastly, you have concluded the Templars were massacred, yet I have no confidence in making that conclusion - we have nothing that can be
PROVEN to be Templar in origins found in the Superstitions (or Arizona or Mexico for that matter) so while you DO have an interesting theory, I hope you will take the time and search to find the evidence which will prove it beyond doubt even to the archaeologists. You know the historians will insist on nothing less than absolute and incontrovertible proof before they will agree to change the history books. You have good abilities as a researcher, just need some more solid evidence to convince the hard-noses like your friend Oroblanco (who has had some experience tilting at windmills personally!).
Oroblanco
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I mis-read this earlier, in the mention of the five gallon jug of nitro - and went way, way off into trying to find a date, then into a theory of where the gold came from! See mi amigo Blindbowman, how far OFF I can get, with such a simple mistake? So we are really back to just the strange markings on the bars! Sorry about that Joe, it is a rainy night here in SD and I started connecting dots that just weren't there!
