Scott Wolter

Tortured and burned at the stake.

Well, actually, no.

There were about 12,000 or so Templars at that time, but they only arrested 600 in France, and about 60 of them were burned at the stake.

And the rest of them in other places just went underground.

They disappeared into stonemason guilds and other places.

But the ones in France that were anchored at La Rochelle, the western port, there were 18 ships.

And on the morning of October 13, 1307, the church agents went there to confiscate the ships and they were gone with the treasures.

And they disappeared into history.

But we now know what happened.

This book is the story of what happened to them.

And they were guarded.

For 400 years, over 400 years, by the indigenous people, they said to Earl Henry and the Templars, gold and silver mean nothing to us.

You are our brothers.

You want us to guard this for you?

We'll do it.

And they did.

And then subsequent generations of the Weems and Sinclair clans, their mission was to come and check on the treasures.

And that happened for 15 generations and over 500 years until 1770, when 46 young men, all Freemasons and six slaves,

went up, they were sent up by Ben Franklin and other founding fathers to go recover those treasures, which they did under the nose of the British.

And a lot of that money was used to help fund the revolution and found this nation.