Fool's Gold (2008): The Vangor Family History

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Where every known record, official transcript and royal decree...
...relating to the fleets has been kept for centuries.
At first it was for fun, but then we decided to look up the Aurelia...
...because of the cannon we'd found in Florida, and it became our pet project.
Especially when we learned the captain was an 18-year-old kid named Sebastian Vangor.
Who we also discovered was the illegitimate son...
...of Captain General Don Juan Ubilla of the Capitana...
...and his Mexican mistress, Francesca Vangor.
We thought it was an interesting sidebar and really didn't think much more of it...
...until Tess found this very obscure Spanish book published in 1905...
...titled, The Vangors: an 18th Century Family.
It was a collection of letters.
So why is this important?
Because the Vangors controlled the mule train that transported the Dowry...
...over the mountains from the Pacific to the Caribbean...
...and then loaded it onto Spanish galleons here in Veracruz.
So I'm reading this, and all of a sudden I start hyperventilating...
...because there it is right in front of me in Ubilla's last letter to Francesca.
He wrote:
"My faith in the Aurelia is that she is swift and light...
...and can outrun the storms we will most certainly encounter.
But it is my faith in Sebastian that knows no bounds.
Our son is good and strong and wiser than this old fool...
...who leaves your bed more and more reluctantly.
The glory of the Spanish Crown rests in his capable hands."
So...
...Ubilla pulled a switch.
Mm.
With the Vangors' help.
And moved the Queen's Dowry from the Capitana to the supply ship.
Because?
The Capitana was already way overloaded...
...so it was very heavy and very slow.
It wasn't just hurricanes they had to worry about.
British warships, French privateers, you name it.

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