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<p>142.163.155.21: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Era|AC4}}<br /> {{WP-REAL|1715 Treasure Fleet}}<br /> {{Dialogue|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.}}<br /> [[File:AC4BF More Shipwreck - Concept Art.jpg|thumb|250px|The wreckage of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet off the coast of Florida]]<br /> The annual '''Spanish Treasure Fleets''' were convoys of [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Ships|warships]] that departed Spanish New world ports such as [[Havana]], [[Cuba]], in the [[Caribbean]], after receiving mule loads of trade goods such as gold, silver and jewels from South American colonies such as Peru, and were destined for the ports of [[Cádiz]] and [[Seville]], Spain. Some of the most notable were the Treasure Fleets of 1622, 1715, 1733 and 1750 which were all decimated by hurricanes, spilling a fortune in Gold Reales into the ocean.<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> 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 [[Piracy|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]]''.&lt;ref name=&quot;AC4&quot;&gt;''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> 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. 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 &quot;quite spoilt&quot;.&lt;ref name=&quot;AC4&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;treasure&quot;, which was a [[Fragment of Eden]]. One [[frigate]] of the six ships survived, which the pirates had to let go since they were confronted by [[Francis Hume]].&lt;ref&gt;''[[Assassin's Creed: Pirates]]''&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> [[Category:Spanish Navy warships|*]]</div>

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