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Word of the Fleet's sinking quickly spread throughout the region, with wild variances on the details. Edward Thatch at one point expressed an interest in diving the wrecks one day, but it is unknown if he ever did. Edward Kenway, on the other hand, dove to the wreck of the ''[[San Ignacio]]'' in order to recover medicines for the citizens of [[Nassau]], although the cures he recovered were "quite spoilt".<ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref> |
Word of the Fleet's sinking quickly spread throughout the region, with wild variances on the details. Edward Thatch at one point expressed an interest in diving the wrecks one day, but it is unknown if he ever did. Edward Kenway, on the other hand, dove to the wreck of the ''[[San Ignacio]]'' in order to recover medicines for the citizens of [[Nassau]], although the cures he recovered were "quite spoilt".<ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref> |
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| − | In November 1716, another Spanish Treasure Fleet was attacked by the pirates [[Alonzo Batilla]], [[Olivier Levasseur]] and [[Samuel Bellamy]]. The fleet decided to flee after noticing the pirates, and Alonzo Batilla attacked the ships, but could not find Samuel Bellamy's "treasure", which was a Templar artifact. One [[frigate]] of the six ships survived, which the pirates had to let go since they were confronted by [[Francis Hume]].<ref name="ACP">''[[Assassin's Creed: Pirates]]''</ref> |
+ | In November, 1716, another Spanish Treasure Fleet was attacked by the pirates [[Alonzo Batilla]], [[Olivier Levasseur]] and [[Samuel Bellamy]]. The fleet decided to flee after noticing the pirates, and Alonzo Batilla attacked the ships, but could not find Samuel Bellamy's "treasure", which was a Templar artifact. One [[frigate]] of the six ships survived, which the pirates had to let go since they were confronted by [[Francis Hume]].<ref name="ACP">''[[Assassin's Creed: Pirates]]''</ref> |
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- Edward Thatch: "Was the haul aboard as rich as men are saying?"
- Edward Kenway: "A thousand times that. I reckon a million pounds worth of reales were sunk that day."
- —Edwards Thatch and Kenway, on the Treasure Fleet's cargo, 1715.
The Treasure Fleet of 1715 was a convoy of Spanish warships that had departed from the city of Havana, Cuba, in the Caribbean, and was destined for Seville, Spain. Among other things, the Fleet mainly carried a fortune in Spanish reales.
Seven days after their departure, the Fleet hit a tropical storm which destroyed eleven of its twelve vessels. The surviving ship was a brig known as El Dorado, which had been stolen by the pirates Edward Kenway and Adéwalé during their escape from imprisonment aboard one of the fleet's other ships. Following the escape, Kenway took the ship as his own, and rechristened it the Jackdaw.
Word of the Fleet's sinking quickly spread throughout the region, with wild variances on the details. Edward Thatch at one point expressed an interest in diving the wrecks one day, but it is unknown if he ever did. Edward Kenway, on the other hand, dove to the wreck of the San Ignacio in order to recover medicines for the citizens of Nassau, although the cures he recovered were "quite spoilt".[1]
In November, 1716, another Spanish Treasure Fleet was attacked by the pirates Alonzo Batilla, Olivier Levasseur and Samuel Bellamy. The fleet decided to flee after noticing the pirates, and Alonzo Batilla attacked the ships, but could not find Samuel Bellamy's "treasure", which was a Templar artifact. One frigate of the six ships survived, which the pirates had to let go since they were confronted by Francis Hume.[2]