File:Map WestIndies SpanishTreasureRoutes 1726.svg
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Map showing alternative sailing routes used by the Spanish circa 1726 to export their Southern American gold back home to Cadiz, Spain. The procedure was always at great risk of attack by pirates or by the fleets of foreign nations and great stealth and speed had to be practiced. Before the w:Blockade of Portobello by the British fleet, Viscount Townshend, Secretary of State, received a report from Woods Rogers and Capt. Jonathan Denniss, both experts on the topic, advising him on the stealthy routes taken by spanish gold ships for evading detection. A report dated 10 November 1726 was delivered to prepare Admiral Hosier for his task.[1] The road between the ports of Acapulco and Veracruz and passing through Mexico City was called the Camino Real ("royal road") and is reputed to have witnessed the largest transfer of riches in the history of mankind.[1][2] |
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Source | Map amended from File:Caribbean location map.svg by User:Milenioscuro |
Author | Lobsterthermidor (talk) 19:13, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |
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- ↑ British Museum Additional MS 32748, folios 317-18, quoted in G.E. Manwaring's introduction to Cassell's 1928 "Seafarers'Library" edition of Woodes Rogers "A Cruising Voyage Round the World" (first published 1712), pp.xxxviii-xl[3]; republished by Dover Publications in 1970, with introduction by Percy G. AdamsISBN 0-486-22304-3 [4]
- ↑ Runners, fast ships which risk every impediment as to privateers or blockade (Smyth, "Sailor's Word Book", p.58)
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current | 18:34, 31 October 2020 | 737 × 411 (3.39 MB) | Lobsterthermidor (talk | contribs) | Added current, etc | |
16:55, 31 October 2020 | 737 × 411 (3.39 MB) | Lobsterthermidor (talk | contribs) | Changed gold to treasure (mainly silver), added Mexico City as stop-over | ||
17:02, 30 October 2020 | 737 × 411 (3.37 MB) | Lobsterthermidor (talk | contribs) | Direct route amended, although as the crow flies, against current, not a feasible route, the current flows clockwise | ||
19:23, 28 October 2020 | 737 × 411 (3.39 MB) | Lobsterthermidor (talk | contribs) | Object to path, text improved | ||
19:13, 28 October 2020 | 737 × 411 (3.28 MB) | Lobsterthermidor (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=Map showing alternative sailing routes used by the Spanish circa 1726 to export their Southern American gold back home to Cadiz, Spain. The procedure was always at great risk of attack by pirates or by the fleets of foreign nations and great stealth and speed had to be practiced. From past experience Rogers probably knew more than any other person then in England of the favoured Spanish tactics for evading detection. A report dated 10 November 1726, was delivered,... |
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