When the Templars were disbanded by papal order in 1307, their massive fleet disappeared from its base at La Rochelle. What became of the ships and the famous treasure of the Templars? Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress maintains that a portion of the fleet became the first pirates to fly the skull and Crossbones - marauding through the Mediterranean, and later preying on the ships of the Vatican coming from the rich ports of the Americas as the Pirates of the Caribbean. Another portion of the fleet fled to the deep fiords of Scotland and come under the command of the St. Clair family of Rosslyn - the founders of Freemasonry. These Templars made a voyage to Canada in the year 1398 AD, nearly 100 years before Columbus. And what of Columbus? Was he really a Spanish-born Jew who was in possession of Templar maps of the New World before he ever sailed? Find out in the fascinating pages inside!

Topics include:

• 10,000 Years of Seafaring
• King Solomon's Phoenician Navy
• The Fascinating Assassins
• The Knights Templar and their Fleet
• The Rivalry between the Knights of Malta and the Knights Templar
• The Suppression of the Templars
• The Lost Templar Fleet and the Origins of the Pirates
• Pirates and the War Against the Vatican
• Masons, Privateers and the Building of the New World

Table of Contents

1. 10,000 Years of Seafaring
2. The Origin of the Knights Templar
3. The Lost Templar Fleet and the Jolly Roger
4. The Templars and the Assassins
5. Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
6. Pirates, Templars and the New World
7. Christopher Columbus: Secret Templar-Pirate?
8. Pirates, Privateers and the War with the Vatican
9. Pirate Utopias and the New Jerusalem

Bibliography and Footnotes

277 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback, Illustrated

Price - $16.95