This is the third part of a new on-going series called “All Over the Place Via Your Suggestions” where I will continue to research your suggestions, and follow the many clues you all provide that helps to uncover our hidden history.
In part three, I was guided by looking into the suggestions and information from viewers about Port Townsend in northwest Washington; Yakima in Central Washington; and Pembroke in South Wales.
What is interesting about doing this work following up on viewer suggestions is that more often than not, unplanned themes and correlations emerge that are unique to each part, and this one was no exception. I don’t start out looking for a particular theme. I start out by selecting places people have suggested, and then I start looking to see what is there. What I found in this case are intriguing correlations and similarities between what is found in Washington State and what is found in South Wales, and I gave examples of a few other places with similar correlations from past research I have done.
My starting place for this particular journey of going “All Over the Place Via Your Suggestions” is Port Townsend, Washington.
EM sent me several pictures of buildings in Port Townsend, a port city on Quimper Peninsula at the northeast tip of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.
Port Townsend first became a settlement on April 24th of 1851, the year it was first incorporated.
Port Townsend is located next to the entrance of Puget Sound, and called the “City of Dreams” because of early speculation that it would become the west coast’s largest harbor, and is known by its other nickname, the “Key City,” today.
We are told that by the late 19th-century, the town was very active in getting ready for its future expected growth, and that many ornate, Victorian architecture was built here during this time.
Though railroad extensions were planned to the port, the Panic of 1893, an economic depression lasting until 1897, caused the funding to dry up and the railroad-lines ended on the other side of Puget sound, and for this reason, Port Townsend never achieved its expected growth, and instead immediately started to decline.
Puget Sound is described as a complex estuary system of connected marine waterways and basins.
An estuary is defined as a partially-enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, with brackish meaning a combination of salt-water and fresh-water.
EM sent me a picture of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Port Townsend.
It was said to have been built in 1892 in the Romanesque-Revival style, and designed by architect W. A. Ritchie.
W. A. Ritchie was said to have won numerous competitions for county courthouses and other public buildings in the early 1890s, and was the first architect to achieve statewide reputation in Washington.
Other buildings attributed to him, besides the Jefferson County Courthouse, include:
The Old Capitol Building in Olympia, Washington, said to have been built between 1890 and 1892…
…and the Spokane County Courthouse in Spokane, Washington, said to have been built in the French Revival and Chateauesque architectural styles in 1895.
She sent me this photo of the historic Hastings Building in Port Townsend, said to have been built starting in 1889 and completed in 1890, and designed by Elmer H. Fisher in the Romanesque architectural style of the Victorian-era.
It was considered to be the city’s most elegant building, and has always been utilized as commercial and office space.
Elmer H. Fisher was considered best-known for his architectural work in rebuilding Seattle after the 1889 Great Fire of Seattle, though interesting to note that he began and ended his career as a carpenter, while practicing as an architect in Washington between 1886 and 1891.
Besides the Hastings House in Port Townsend, he was credited with the design of the Romanesque-style Pioneer Building in Seattle, the construction of which was said to have started in 1889 and was completed by 1892.
EM also sent me a photo of the James and Fisher Building in Port Townsend.
The architectural firm of Fisher and Clark (Elmer H. Fisher and George Clark) were credited with its design, and that it was built in 1889, and owned by Francis W. James and Lucinda Hastings.
Like the Hastings Building, the James and Hastings building has also operated as commercial and office space throughout its history.
EM mentioned that there is also a “Rothschild House” in Port Townsend.
The Rothschild House was said to ahve been built by David Charles Henry Rothschild as a family home in 1868, and operates as a museum today.
He had immigrated from Bavaria in Germany to the United States in the mid-1840s.
Shortly after settling in Port Townsend in 1858, David Rothschild, known as “The Baron,” he established a business there that not only operated as a mercantile store, but as well as provisioned ships and did some marine salvage work.
Just want to take a look at a couple of other places in the area before I leave Port Townsend – Fort Worden, Fort Flagler, and then Fort Casey on Whidbey Island.
Fort Worden was said to have been constructed between 1898 and 1920 and as an artillery corps base to protect Puget Sound from invasion by sea, and was active as a U. S. Army base between 1902 and 1953.
From 1957 until its closure in 1971, it was utilized by the State of Washington as a Juvenile Detention facility, after which time it was turned into state park
The address for the Fort Worden State Park is 200 Battery Way E in Port Townsend.
The Point Wilson Lighthouse is on the grounds of the Fort Worden State Park, and considered to be one of the most important navigational aids in the state, where it overlooks the entrance to Admiralty Inlet that connects the Strait of Juan de Fuce with Puget Sound.
Reportedly the second lighthouse said to have been built here, it was said to have been completed in 1914, replacing an earlier one that opened in 1879.
Fort Flagler was located in nearby Nordland, Washington, at the northern end of Marrowstone Island at the entrance of Admiralty Inlet, and the Marrowstone Point Lighthouse is located nearby.
We are told that Fort Flagler, along with Fort Worden and Fort Casey, was part of a Coast Artillery said to have been built starting in the 1890s that guarded Admiralty Inlet and the entrance to Puget Sound, the major cities of which include Seattle and Tacoma.
Fort Casey was located on Whidbey Island, the largest island in Washington State, and forms the northern border of Puget Sound.
The Admiralty Head Lighthouse is located within the Fort Casey State Park.
We are told these three forts were intended to be a “Triangle of Fire” against invasion from the sea.
So, there are a couple of points I would like to make here.
First, I typically find star forts in pairs or clusters, as seen here where they form a triangle in relationship to each other.
You see the same kind of geometric relationship between star forts on Alderney, one of the Channel Islands.
Here’s a view of Fort Houmet Herbe in the foreground in a triangular relationship with Fort Quesnard on the top left, and the ruins of Fort Les Hommeaux Florains on the top right.
One definition of the “battery” is a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit.
Another meaning of the word battery is the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, and which has come to be associated with all of these so-called forts.
A third definition of battery is an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact.
I think they are telling us what these structures actually were in the first answer – that these star forts functioned as circuitry and batteries for the purpose of producing electricity and/or some form of free energy to power the Earth’s grid system and the advanced civilization, and that this is the reason there star forts are found in pairs and clusters.
The second definition of battery points to the re-purposing of these structures as artillery locations in the new time-line in order for them to appear to have a strictly military function.
And does the third definition battery apply here?
I think it does, in the sense that a major assault has been committed against the Human Race by all that has taken place here without our knowledge and consent, and removing all of this critical information from our awareness about the True History of Humanity, and so, so much more.
Another thing I would like to bring forward is the consistent finding of light houses co-located with star forts as seen in this example of one at each of the three star forts at the entrance to Puget Sound.
I don’t think lighthouses functioned as advertised either.
While I do believe that lighthouses likely served to guide ships through maritime passages, I also think they were serving multiple purposes on the earth’s grid system.
Perhaps “lighthouses” were literally functioning as “a house for light” for the purposes of precisely distributing the energy generated by this gigantic integrated system that existed all over the Earth that was in perfect alignment with everything on Earth and in heaven.
Next, HS directed my attention to her hometown of Yakima, Washington.
One of the nicknames of Yakima is the “Heart of Central Washington,” and is a productive agricultural region known in particular for apples, wine, and the hops used for beer-making.
There were a number of places that HS directed my attention to in Yakima.
First, she said the A.E. Larson building has always stood out as very odd to her, even as a small child.
The A.E. Larson Building was said to have been built by entrepreneur Adelbert E. Larson in 1931, and designed in the Art Deco architectural style by local architect John W. Maloney.
At eleven-stories, it was and is the tallest building in Yakima.
The architect John W. Maloney was credited with the design of numerous buildings in Washington, Alaska, and California, including but not limited to the Shaw-Smyser Hall at Central Washington University in Ellensburg…
…the Old Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, that opened in 1939 and operated through the Sisters of Providence…
…and St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, which opened in 1942 and operated through the Sisters of Charity.
Then there’s A. E. Larson’s Rosedell mansion in Yakima.
Here’s what we are told about it.
It was said to have been built between 1904 and 1909 for Adelbert E. Larson and his wife Rose (hence “Rosedell”).
The Larson’s lived here until Rose’s death in 1945, and the property was willed to the city for the purpose of turning the mansion into an art gallery. The City of Yakima, however, sold the property and the money provided for its upkeep, and used the funds to create the Larson Art Gallery at the Yakima Valley Community College.
The property went through several owners of the years, and sat empty for 18-years before being purchased by new owners who converted the mansion into a Bed-and-Breakfast, which opened in 2009.
HS sent me a picture of the Capitol Theater, a performing arts venue in downtown Yakima, originally featuring Vaudeville acts. Today it is the home of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra.
It was said to have been designed in the Renaissance architectural style by Scottish architect B. Marcus Priteca, and first opened in April of 1920.
Industrialist Chester A. Congdon was an attorney and mining magnate was credited with funding the building the Yakima Valley Canal, said to have been built in 1894 for the purposes of irrigation.
The privately-owned Congdon Castle was said to have been built for him between 1914 and 1915 (which would have been during World War I).
Congdon died in 1916, the year after construction was said to have been completed.
Congdon Castle is surrounded by fruit orchards, and trolley tracks running out to the Congdon Orchards used to run along the south-side of the castle.
The Yakima Valley Trolley system started operating in 1907.
In 1911, we are told that a concrete and masonry powerhouse substation was built to provide the DC electricity needed to operate the trolleys. It is a museum today.
The trolley car system operated as a city service for all intents and purposes until it was terminated in 1947.
In 2001, the Yakima Valley Trolleys Association was formed, and began to operate a rail service for the city of Yakima, and is called the “last authentic, all-original, turn-of-the-century interurban railroad int he United States.”
The Carbonneau Castle was said to have been built in Yakima by Brenda Mulrooney Carbonneau in 1908.
Brenda Mulrooney was an enterprising Irish-born and said to be the richest woman in the Klondike, having made her first fortune as a merchant during the Klondike Gold Rush, which took place in the Yukon between 1896 and 1899, which she lost but subsequently made another fortune doing other things.
Today it is a flower and gift shop.
The Carmichael Castle is located in Union Gap, a city in the Yakima Valley.
It was said to have been built in 1902 in the Queen Anne architectural-style by Elizabeth Carmichael, the enterprising Scottish-born owner of the Yakima Creamery.
Next, Viewer M suggested that I look into Pembroke and Pembroke Dock in West Wales.
Pembroke has many historic buildings, walls, and complexes, including:
Pembroke Castle, described as a medieval stone fortress founded by the Normans in 1093, the seat of the powerful Earls of Pembroke and the birthplace of King Henry VII…
…and Monkton Priory, across the Pembroke river from the Pembroke Castle, and said to have been founded in 1098 by the Anglo-Norman magnate Arnulf de Montgomery and granted to the Benedictine Order.
So, a couple of things to point out here, first about these two locations as seen on Google Earth.
Pembroke Castle has the appearance of a star fort with rounded bastions.
There are different shapes and styles of star forts all over the Earth, like these two in Puebla, Mexico – Forts Loreto and Guadalupe situated across from each other.
So it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Monkton Priory and its grounds are in a star fort configuration as well.
The two locations are connected by what is called the Monkton Bridge…
…and on one side of the Monkton Bridge is what is called the “Monkton Pill.”
Though located right next to each other, Pembroke and Monkton are considered two separate towns.
The narrow Lower Commons are below the Monkton Bridge, where it looks like it could have been part of the water’s course at one time.
The Pembroke River flows past Pembroke Castle to the Milford Haven Waterway at the Pennar Mouth.
The Pembroke River is said to start at Manorbier Newton and meander its way to Lamphey and flows past the Pembroke Castle in Pembroke…
…but the Pembroke River doesn’t make an obvious appearance until it enters Pembroke.
When it enters Pembroke, there are three pools, the first of which is the Mill Pond, the second is the Middle Mill Pond, and the third is the Castle Pond below the Pembroke Castle.
The Mill Pond was said to be a former tidal inlet.
The Mill was an ancient corn mill powered by the tidal flow of the inlet, built soon after the Pembroke Castle was founded and granted to the Knights Templar in 1199.
A Mill said to have been at this location since 1830 was destroyed by fire in 1956 and only the foundations remain.
The Pembroke Train Station is a short-walk from the Pembroke Castle, and was said to have first opened in 1863, with the line being extended to Pembroke Dock a year later.
The original train station building was built out of limestone.
It was demolished in the 1970s and replaced with the current shelter.
The construction of the South Wales Railway was said to have been proposed in an 1844 prospectus, and opened in stages starting in 1850.
It connected the Great Western Railway to South Wales.
Pembroke Dock is a town that is located 3-miles, or 4.8-kilometers northwest of Pembroke, and situated on the River Cleddau.
Originally called Paterchurch, it grew quickly after Royal Navy Dockyards were founded here in 1814.
It ceased being used as a dockyard by the Royal Navy in 1926, not long after World War I ended, for the given reason of lack of funding.
The Royal Air Force occupied the site from 1926 to 1930, using the former dockyards as a station for seaplanes and flying boats.
During World War II, it was used as a home for international forces for flying boats, air force squadrons and naval crews.
The “Defensible Barracks” at the Pembroke Dock was said to have been built in the 1840s to house the Royal Marines based at the Royal Navy Dockyards and to cover the landward side of the dockyard from an infantry assault.
It is described as a 20-sided stone masonry fort with a dry moat.
It was acquired by a private developer in 2019, and is currently up-for-sale in for 1.2-million Euros.
One section of it has already been converted into apartments, and it is being marketed for residential or commercial use.
One more place I would like to take a look at here is the Milford Haven Waterway.
The Milford Haven Waterway is described as a natural deepwater harbor and part of an estuary that was formerly a valley drowned at the end of the last Ice Age.
As I was looking into the Milford Haven Waterway, I found five more star forts and a lighthouse.
Let’s take a deeper look!
The Stack Rock Fort was said to have been built on a small island in the waterway between 1850 and 1852 with 3-guns, and then upgraded in 1859 with a new building to totally encase the original gun tower.
There are two other star forts near Stack Rock Fort in the Milford Haven Waterway – one on Thorne Island and the other called the Chapel Bay Fort.
Thorne Island is dominated by what is described as a coastal artillery fort built in the 1850s to defend the Milford Haven Waterway, as there was concern about the expansionist policy of the French Emperor Napoleon III and the increasing strength of the French Navy.
The Chapel Bay Fort was said to have been built between 1890 and 1891 as part of the inner line of defense of the Haven, following the plan of the “Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom,” a committee formed in 1859 at the instigation of Lord Palmerston, Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister, to enquire into the ability of the United Kingdom to defend itself against attempted invasion by a foreign power, and to advise remedial action to the British government if such a situation arose.
Before I move over to St. Ann’s Head on the west-side of the Milford Haven Waterway, where there is a lighthouse, and two forts, I would like share information with you about so-called Palmerston Forts on the Isle of Wight and the Solent, the strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain.
There were approximately 20 of these Palmerston structures along the west and east coast of the Isle of Wight, all of which were said to have been constructions resulting from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defense of the United Kingdom.
The four forts in The Solent in appearance look like the Stack Rock Fort in the Milford Haven Waterway, which in turn in shape to have the appearance of a spark plug.
The coastal areas of the Solent are estuaries and have status as protected lands, like the New Forest National Park on one-side of the Solent, which interestingly includes the Exbury Gardens & Steam Railway…
…and the Exbury Gardens are world-famous for the collection of Rhodedendrons and Azaleas of its Rothschild owners.
Now over to St. Ann’s Head, where we find the lighthouse bearing its name; the West Blockhouse Fort and the Dale Fort.
First, the St. Ann’s Head Lighthouse.
Trinity House was said to have first built two lighthouses here in 1714 at the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway to guide ships around rocks hazardous to shipping.
The St. Ann’s Head Low Lighthouse was said to have been re- built in 1844 because of cliff erosion endangering the original
Trinity House, also known as the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strong, established by Royal Charter in 1514, and the official authority for lighthouses in Wales, England, the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar.
It is also a maritime charity, taking care of retired seamen, training young cadets, and promoting safety
The funding for the work of lighthouse services comes from the levying of “light dues” on commercial vessels calling at British ports based on net registered tonnage.
The West Block House Fort on West Block House Point is described as a mid-19th-century coastal artillery fort that was also constructed in response to the perceived threat of invasion of the forces of French Emperor Napoleon III, who came to power in 1851.
And, we are told, intended to protect the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway by means of interlocking fire with the fort on Thorne Island and the Dale Fort on St. Ann’s Head, also said to have been built as a coastal artillery fort in the mid-19th-century.
Today Dale Fort is a center run by the Field Studies Council, offering field work for schools and other course offerings.
I mentioned the estuary lands of the Solent, the strait separating the Isle of Wight from mainland Great Britain, and the Exbury Gardens in the New Forest National Park.
I noticed the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to the southeast of Pembroke and Pembroke Dock along the coastline of South Wales, and decided to go take a look at what they tell us about it.
In 1956, most of the Gower Peninsula became the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated as an “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,” an area that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.
In my research, I have consistently found the world “natural” to be a cover-up code word for the original civilization.
The Gower Peninsula is bounded to the North by the Loughor Estuary and Swansea Bay to the East.
Worm’s Head is located at the furthest westerly point of the Gower AONB.
Worm’s Head is described as a headland of three islands comprised of “carboniferous limestone,” meaning the collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous period, which occurred roughly 340-million years ago.
Worm’s Head is only accessible on foot for 2 1/2-hours either side of low tide, and yes, people have gotten stuck out there.
The formation known as the “Devil’s Bridge” is located on the middle island.
It is important to note here that limestone was a popular building material in the Ancient World.
I just want to point out that limestone was a common building material in the ancient world, and used in constructions like the Pyramids of Giza…
…and the Western Wall, also known as the “Wailing Wall,” an ancient limestone wall in the old city of Jerusalem.
The Goat’s Hole Cave, one of the Paviland Caves in Gower, was excavated in 1823, and is considered one of the most famous archeological sites in Great Britain due to the discovery of the “Red Lady of Paviland,” though the skeleton has since been determined to have been of a man.
The skeletal remains were dyed in red ochre, and said to date back to 31,000 BC and recognized as the earliest ceremonial burial in Europe and the first human fossil remains found in the world.
The Gower Peninsula is home to what is called the “Parc le Breos” burial chamber, a chambered long barrow or cairn, believed to have been constructed during the Neolithic age in Britain, around 6,000 BC and discovered in 1869 by workmen digging for road stone.
What I am aware of from other such long barrows in Great Britain is that they have important astronomical and landscape alignment features, and most likely not built to be burial chambers.
The West Kennet long barrow in the Avebury Complex is a great example of what I am talking about.
I saw a presentation by Peter Knight about the West Kennet Long Barrow for the Glastonbury Megalithomania Conference in 2011, several years before I started putting all of this together in 2016. From watching it, I gained an important piece of the puzzle, well before I really understood what it meant.
In Peter Knight’s presentation, his focus was primarily on the West Kennet Long Barrow in the Avebury complex, which is a greater sacred landscape that is precise and intricate.
He talked about sight lines in his presentation, which refers to a normally unobstructed line-of-sight between an intended observer and a subject of interest.
So, for example, in this view from Windmill Hill, there is a visual connection between Windmill Hill, Silbury Hill, and the West Kennet Long Barrow seen here.
All of the sites in the complex are perfectly aligned in some manner with each other.
There are abundant solar and lunar markers in the Avebury landscape.
Here is a winter solstice sunset seen in the landscape from the entrance of the West Kennet Long Barrow…
…and it is framed in the entrance of the West Kennet Long Barrow as seen from inside the Long Barrow on the solstice, when light streams through to special stones waiting at the end of the chamber.
There are also abundant astronomical markers inside the long barrow, in the chambers within.
From inside the West Kennet Long Barrow, there are places where you can see things at certain times, like the Equinox moonrise…
…and the Pleiades.
We are told there are eight remaining standing stones known as “menhirs” in the Gower Peninsula, out of nine that were originally here.
King Arthur’s Stone was one of them.
It has a 25-ton, or 23-metric-ton, capstone, and also described as a chambered burial tomb.
The presence of the large capstone was attributed to its being a glacial erratic, a massive piece of rock carried by glacial ice, and we are told that builders of the tomb dug underneath and supported it with upright stones to create a burial chamber.
While the term “glacial erratic” is used frequently to describe such massive structures found in North America, like Tripod Rock at the Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area in Kinnelon, New Jersey…
…around the world these structures are known as “dolmens,” classified as a single-chambered megalithic tomb.
By the way, there are tons of what are designated as glacial erratic boulders in Washington State, including but not limited to, the following:
Back on the Gower Peninsula, we are told the Romans built a trapezoidal fort called Leucarum at the mouth of the River Loughor in the late first-century to house a regiment of Roman auxiliary troops.
Its remains are located beneath the town of Loughor, on the estuary of the River Loughor.
The Loughor Railway Station was on the South Wales Railway, which today is the West Wales Line, from Swansea to Llanelli.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and mechanical engineer who was credited with the building of the Great Western Railway, along with dockyards and steamships, and called “one of the 19th-century engineering giants,” and “one of the greatest figures of the industrial revolution.”
The Loughor Viaduct going across the River Loughor was said to be the last remaining timber viaduct designed by Kingdom Brunel in 1852.
The old viaduct was replaced and the new one opened in April of 2013.
A section of the old viaduct sits next to the new viaduct in order to recognize it as an important historic monument.
The last place that I would like to take a look at on the Gower Peninsula is Mumbles, a headland situated on the western edge of Swansea Bay.
The building of the Mumbles Lighthouse was said to have been completed in 1794, and we are told the Mumbles Battery, a Palmerston fort, was built around the base of the lighthouse between 1859 and 1861.
Mumbles Pier was said to have opened in 1898 at the terminus of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway.
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the world’s first horse-drawn public passenger train service.
It first opened in 1804 to transport iron ore from the Clyne Valley and limestone from the quarries of Mumbles, and then opened in 1807 to passenger train service.
Steam-power replaced horse-power in 1877, and was used until 1929, when it switched to electric-power until the closure of the line in 1960.
Mumbles had both historical limestone quarries and was part of the Gower lime burning industry, which operated between 1840 and 1960.
The lime-burners job was to removed quick lime from limestone heated in what were called lime kilns to be used for things like building mortars.
This lime kiln looks like a really old stone building to me!
One of the last lime kiln quarries of this industry was the Colts Hill Quarry, immediately west of Oystermouth Castle, which produced both limestone and marble, in addition to quick lime.
Marble is a form of limestone capable of taking on a high polish, like this example of a memorial made from Mumbles marble at the Margam Abbey Church across Swansea Bay from Mumbles.
The Oystermouth Castle in Mumbles was said to have been a Norman stone castle built during the 1100s, and was already said to have been in decay by 1650, when it was described as such in a survey of Gower at that time.
When I was reading an article about “Elliptical Polarization” awhile back, I encountered the diagram showing the efficiency in decibels of the axial ratio of two antenna, and the shapes formed in the graph immediately brought this common shape of windows in cathedrals on the right, compared with the chapel window at Oystermouth Castle.
Were these windows actually functioning as antennae for sound?
Oyster beds and oysters were plentiful in the waters around Mumbles, and the hey-day of the oyster-harvesting industry was from 1850 until 1873, after which time the oyster industry went into decline as a mainstay of the economy for a variety of reasons, including the coming of the railroad and the growth of Mumbles as a tourist destination.
As always, there is much more to find here, but now I am going to wrap things up with a summary of my findings.
Here are the similarities and correlations I have found between Washington State, South Wales, and a few other places that have come to mind in the process of doing the research for this.
First, we have the presence of forts that were said to have been built as coastal artillery batteries to protect the entrances to important waterways.
Starting in the mid-19th-century, we are told that three Palmerston Forts in a triangular configuration were constructed at the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway as a coastal artillery forts designed to provide “interlocking fire” in the event of an invasion from the forces of the French Emperor Napoleon III.
Then, later in the 19th-century through the early 20th-century, three forts were said to have been built in the Admiralty Inlet at the entrance to Puget Sound as coastal artillery forts designed to create a “Triangle of Fire” in the event of an invasion from the sea.
There are lighthouses in both places.
Not surprisingly, right, as all of these are coastal areas needing lighthouses to guide ships?
But what if lighthouses served as something much greater than just as navigational aids for ships, as I suggested previously.
Lighthouses are typically found in conjunction with these forts in some capacity.
As I surmised previously in this post, what if these forts were actually functioning as batteries on the Earth’s worldwide energy grid system, and the lighthouses were precisely distributing the energy generated by this gigantic integrated system that existed all over the Earth?
Then there are castles in both places, with the turrets commonly associated with them.
In Wales, they are typically dated to having been constructed during the Norman period in 1100s in Welsh history, like the Pembroke Castle on the right.
In Washington State, there are a number of “castles” that were said to have been built as residences for entrepreneurs in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
There are massive, multi-ton boulders called “Glacial Erratics” in both South Wales and Washington State, which we are told were massive pieces of rock carried by glacial ice, like the capstone of King Arthur’s Stone on the Gower Peninula of South Wales, and the Lake Lawrence Erratic in the Puget Sound region of Washington.
Then, there are estuaries.
Again, an estuary is defined as a partially-enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, with brackish meaning a combination of salt-water and fresh-water.
Puget Sound in Washington State is described as a complex estuary system of connected marine waterways and basins, and was said to have been carved out by the advance and retreat of massive glaciers during Ice Ages.
The ten major river drainages into the Puget Sound include: the Cedar/Lake Washington Canal; and the Green/Duwamish; Elwha; Nisqually; Nooksack; Puwallup; Skagit; Skokomish; Snohomish; and Stillaguamish.
The Milford Haven Waterway is described a natural deep harbor that was originally a valley drowned at the end of the last ice age.
The Daugleddau Estuary is part of it, and was formed the coming together of four rivers in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park: the Western and Eastern Cleddau and the Carew and Creswell.
This is a photo of the confluence of the East Cleddau and the West Cleddau…
…and here are a few of examples of many river confluences that look very much the same.
We are told all of these rivers are natural, but I have come to believe from my research that we are looking at what were originally canal systems that were found all over the Earth.
Port Isabel on the Texas Gulf Coast is a good example of what I am talking about.
Port Isabel is located next to an estuary system called the “Laguna Madre Bay.”
The otherwise land-locked Laguna Madre Bay has two channels connecting it to the Gulf of Mexico. One is at Port Isabel, which becomes the 17-mile, or 27-kilometer, Brownsville Ship Channel…
…and the other is at Port Mansfield.
Then in Port Isabel itself, there are artificially-made channels and canals throughout the city.
There are many more examples of this all over the world, but this is the first one that came to mind.
As seen earlier, the River Loughor Estuary is at the northern end of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales.
Lastly from this post, there are estuaries found throughout the Solent, the strait that separates the Isle of Wight from mainland Great Britain…
…an area which also has numerous star forts known known as Palmerston Forts, said to have been built starting in the mid-19th-century as a result of the recommendations from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defense of the United Kingdom.
There are many more estuaries around the world, but these coastal estuaries across continents and oceans are examples of why I think coastal landmasses sank relatively recently, and that we have been given a brand new historical narrative superimposed over the original infrastructure and civilization to tell us what happened.
Personally, I believe that the submerging of earth’s land masses was caused by a deliberately created cataclysm or cataclysms by malevolent beings who had a plan to take-over the Earth’s original civilization for their own benefit.
For another example, just a short-distance down the Pacific Coast from Washington State, in Portland, Oregon, there is a visible star fort point at the Smith & Bybee Wetlands Natural Area, which is now the location of the Bybee Lakes Hope Center for the homeless.
This urban wetlands area in Portland is located right next to the BNSF Ford Railyard. I am finding that it is not uncommon to find the presence of historical railyards and rail-lines co-located with estuaries and wetlands and forts, like what we are told was the historic Leucarum fort that is now underneath the city of Loughor on the Loughor Estuary in South Wales, with Loughor Viaduct railroad bridge crossing beside it to this day as mentioned previously.
So, what does it all mean?
Is it evidence for one original worldwide advanced civilization that was completely integrated in all ways that we know nothing about, with a false historical narrative to cover it up?
Or evidence for colonization and importation of everything from one place to another as we have always been taught to believe?
The definition of Statistical Significance is a determination that a relationship between two or more variables is caused by something other than chance.
I have presented evidence of more than two variables that would be the minimum requirement of correlations between Washington State, South Wales, and a couple of other places, to be considered statistically significant.
Yet our historical narrative leads us to believe that all of the Earth’s infrastructure came into existence as a result of random factors, like some guy in the past bought the land upon which _________________ eventually became a large city.
The definition of random includes, among others, “lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern.’
Besides what I have presented here, I have found many examples in past research of the flimsy nature of the randomness explanation vs. the plentiful evidence for the planned nature of an original worldwide civilization.
I am going to end this post here, and will continue to investigate your suggestions in the on-going series “All Over the Place via Your Suggestions.”
I am giving an overview of modern history with an eye towards uncovering the patterns that give insight into the world we live in today.
Now I am going to look at the 1980s with new eyes, starting with 1981 ~ the year I graduated from high school.
So far, the uncovered patterns show events and people being manipulated for particular outcomes, deceiving us about what was really going on to gain our consent, partitioning one country into two, setting up two different political systems, and then instigating them to fight each other…
…and things like seeing Communist regimes take down hereditary rulers in Cambodia, Iran, and Ethiopia in the 1970s, leading to massive repression, suffering, and death.
Now let’s see what was happening upon my entry into adulthood!
On January 19th, Iran and the United States signed an agreement to release the 52 Iranian hostages after 14-months, or 444-days, of captivity, of which the release took place on the following day, minutes after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the President of the United States.
Just a little over two months after his inauguration, there was an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan by lone gunman John Hinckley Jr. on March 30th.
Hinckley was said to be seeking fame in order to impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he was obsessed.
Then on May 13th, there was an assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II as he entered St. Peter’s Square to greet his supporters by the Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca.
The first cases of AIDS recognized by the CDC took place on June 5th.
AIDS is the acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, a disease caused by the HIV virus, and short for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, a retrovirus that inserts a copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of the host cell it invades, and interferes with the person’s immune system.
It was said to originate from monkeys in West Central Africa.
On August 12th, IBM released the original 5150 IBM PC in the United States, the first of the IBM PC, which had a substantial influence on the personal computer market.
On October 6th, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated, and Hosni Mubarak was elected president on October 14th, who was Egypt’s President for the next 30 years.
There were gas explosions at the Hokutan Shinko coal mine on October 16th, at the time Hokkaido’s newest mine in Japan, killing 93 people.
On December 1st, a Yugoslavian charter flight crashed into a mountain peak on the island of Corsica, killing all 180 passengers on-board.
A week later, on December 8th, the Number 21 Mine explosion took place in Whitwell, Tennessee, killing 13 people.
On December 11th, the El Mozote massacre took place during El Salvador Civil War, where a Salvadoran Army unit killed 900 civilians.
On January 7th of 1982, the Commodore 64 8-bit home computer was launched by Commodore International in Las Vegas, becoming the highest-selling single personal computer model of all-time.
Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th-Street Bridge in Washington, D. C. on January 13th, shortly after take-off, and landed in the Potomac River, killing 78, allegedly due to a series of pilot errors that resulted from the pilot not turning on the engines’ internal ice protection systems.
On the same day in the same city, a Washington Metro subway train derailed, killing 3 people.
Four Thunderbird aircraft in a demonstration squadron crashed in the Indian Springs Diamond Crash in Nevada on January 18th.
The first computer virus, called the Elk Cloner, which infected Apple 2 computers via floppy disk, was found on January 30th. It was written by Rich Skrenta, who was 15-years-old at the time.
Skrenta is currently a computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
On February 9th, Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashed in Tokyo Bay, killing 24 of the 174 people on board, with blame attributed to deliberate actions of the captain of the plane.
The Ocean Ranger oil platform sunk during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all of the 84 rig workers on it at the time.
The invasion of the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina, began on April 1st of 1982, when Argentine forces land near Stanley, marking the beginning of the Falklands War.
British administration of the islands was restored at the end of the war, two-months later.
There was an assassination attempt in London on the life of Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, on June 3rd, which was used for the justification of the start of the Lebanon War of 1982, where on June 6th the Israeli Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon to go after Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) forces operating there.
Also known as “Operation Peace for Galilee,” the Lebanon War lasted until 1985.
Sao Paolo Airways, known as VASP, Flight 168 crashed into a forested hillside in Fortaleza in Brazil on June 8th, killing 137 people.
The cause of the crash was attributed to pilot error.
A month later, on July 9th, Pan Am Flight 759, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board the plane, and 8 on the ground.
The cause of this crash was said to be due to a microburst shortly after take-off from New Orleans, with a microburst being a strong, ground-level wind system.
On July 20th, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two bombs in Central London, one in Hyde Park, and the other in Regent’s Park, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people and killing 7 horses.
The Chicago Tylenol Murders occurred between September 29th and October 1st after 7 people die in the Chicago-area after taking Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide.
No suspect was ever charged or convicted for the poisonings.
On November 7th, a gas tanker exploded in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, with estimates of the death toll ranging from 176 to 2,700.
There was no clear cause of the explosion given, of which the gas tanker was said to be part of a Soviet military convoy, with claims ranging from it being an accident to a successful terrorist attack.
The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire took place on November 25th and 26th of 1982, and destroyed two buildings covering an entire block in downtown Minneapolis.
One was the Northwestern National Bank Building, said to have been built in 1930 by the architecture firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White…
…and the other was the abandoned Donaldson’s Department Store.
The fire was said to have been started by juvenile arsonists using an acetylene torch, though they were never charged.
Minneapolis’ famous “Weatherball” sat on top of the Northwestern National Bank Building, which predicted the weather based on the color it was displaying, was also destroyed in the fire.
Starting on December 3rd, a final soil sample was taken at Times Beach in Missouri, which had 300-times the safe level of dioxin and on December 23rd, the EPA recommended evacuation of the community based on these results.
On February 23rd of 1983, the EPA announced its intention to buy-out and the entire population of Times Beach was subsequently relocated.
So, apparently what happened was an independent contractor was hired to dispose of concentrated dioxin waste from a chemical company in the area.
The contractor was the owner of a small waste-oil business, who mixed the dioxin waste into motor oil tanks, which he then used to coat local horse arenas and roads for dust suppression, starting in 1971.
The site of Times Beach has housed a state park since 1999 commemorating Route 66, and the EPA removed Times Beach from its Superfund list 2001.
Now on to 1983.
January 1st marked the beginning of the true internet when ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, migrated to TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol Suite.
In Turin, Italy, a fire in the Cinema Statuto killed 64 people on February 13th.
The largest disaster in Turin since World War II, the fire was said to have started from flames spread by an old curtain, and that the burning of the theater seats created hydrogen cyanide fumes, of which inhalation was the primary cause of death of the victims.
All but one of the theater’s emergency exits was said to have been closed and locked.
Three days later in Australia, the Ash Wednesday bushfires took place in the States of South Australia and Victoria on February 16th.
They were a series of bushfires that within 12 hours there were 180 fires fanned by winds up to 68 mph, or 110 kph, made worse by severe drought and extreme weather.
The fires claimed the lives of 75 people and caused widespread destruction.
The Nellie Massacre took place on February 18th, described as one of the worst pogroms since World War II, which is a violent riot aimed at the massacre or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group.
In a six-hour period there was a varying estimate of between 2,100 and 10,000 Muslim residents of Assam in northeastern India, after natives of the area were enraged, so we are told, that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made the decision to give millions immigrants from Bangladesh the right-to-vote.
On March 8th, IBM released the Personal Computer XT, model 5160, similar to the model 5150 except that it had a hard-drive built-in and extra expansion slots.
The Ismaning Radio Transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, was demolished on March 16th, after having been defunct since 1977.
It was a large radio transmitting station that started operating in Bavaria, Germany in 1932.
The U. S. Embassy bombing in Beirut took place on April 18th.
It was a suicide bombing that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors, and considered the beginning of Islamist attacks on U. S. targets.
Suicide attacks and bombings are any violent attacks in which the attackers accept their own death as a direct result.
Between 1981 and 2015, over 4,800 suicide attacks occurred in over 40 countries, killing an estimated 45,000 people.
On May 20th, the Church Street car-bombing took place in Pretoria, South Africa, killing 16 and injuring 130 people.
Responsibility for it was claimed by a military wing of the African National Congress.
The Benton Fireworks Disaster took place on Webb’s Bait Farm in Benton, Tennessee on May 27th, where we are told there was an explosion at an unlicensed and illegal fireworks operation, resulting in 11 deaths and 1 injury.
The initial explosion was heard 20-miles, or 32-kilometers, away.
On June 13th, Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Jupiter, an American space probe that was launched in 1972, and the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the solar system.
Meanwhile back on earth, on June 18th, seventeen-year-old Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhah and nine other women were hanged at the order of the Iranian Revolutionary court for the crime of being members of the Baha’i faith in the Islamic Republic of Iran, after being imprisoned and tortured.
A North Korean plane crashed into a mountain in the West African country of Guinea on July 1st, resulting in 23 deaths and attributed to pilot error.
On July 15th, the Turkish Airlines counter at the Orly Airport in Paris was bombed by the Armenian Terrorist Organization ASALA, killing 8 people and injuring 55.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam killed 13 Sri Lankan soldiers in an ambush on July 23rd, immediately after which an anti-Tamil pogrom started that escalated into spontaneous mass violence with significant public participation.
Over a period of 7 days in what is known as “Black July,” mobs attacked, burned, looted and killed Tamil targets, with a death toll with a death toll estimated at over 3,500, and their homes and shops destroyed.
This was seen as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which lasted until 2009.
On August 21st, Benigno Aquino Jr., a Filipino political leader who was in opposition to President Ferdinand Marco, was assassinated at the Manila International Airport upon his return from a self-imposed exile.
The old Philadelphia Arena, an auditorium used mainly for sporting events, was destroyed by arson on August 24th.
Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet Air Force air-to-air missile when it flew into Soviet prohibited airspace due to what we are told was a navigational error, killing all 269 people on-board, on September 1st.
Gulf Air flight 771 crashed in the desert in United Arab Emirates on September 23rd after a bomb exploded in the baggage compartment, killing 112.
Palestinian terrorist organization Abu Nidal group was believed to have planted the bomb, allegedly to convince Saudi Arabia to pay protection money to the Abu Nidal group to avoid attacks on their soil.
The Rangoon Bombing took place on October 9th.
The South Korean President Chun Doo-Hwan and his delegation were in Rangoon, the capital of Burma, and went to the Martyrs’ Mausoleum there to lay a wreath.
Three bombs detonated during the visit, killing 21 and injuring 46. The South Korean President survived, but other senior officials in his administration did not.
It was believed to have been perpetrated by North Korean agents.
The Beirut Barracks Bombing took place on October 23rd, where simultaneous suicide truck bombings destroy both the French Army and Marine Corps barracks there, killing 307 and injuring 75, with Hezbollah believed to be behind it, an Islamist militant group based in Lebanon.
Armed forces of the United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada on October 25th, and lasted for four days.
It resulted in the toppling of the Communist People’s Revolutionary Government, the removal of the Cuban military presence, and the restoration of the former government.
There was a bombing in the Senate of the U. S. Capitol building on November 7th, with the intent to kill Republican Senators by the May 19th Communist Organization, a U. S.-based terrorist organization formed by the Weather Underground Organization, in retaliation for the U. S. military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
There were no deaths or injuries as a result of the bombing.
On November 27th, Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashed into a hill near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on-board, and attributed to pilot error in making a wrong turn on approach.
It was the worst accident in the history of Avianca and mainland Spain.
A little over a week after the Avianca crash, on December 7th, two Spanish passenger planes crashed on a foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 93 people, and known to history as the Madrid Runway Disaster.
Then on December 17th, the Alcala 20 Nightclub Fire occurred in the center of Madrid, in which 82 people were killed and 27 injured out of the 600 in the building at the time.
An exit on an upper floor was locked, and a main exit to an adjoined building was closed with an iron-grill, during the fire.
In London on December 17th, the same day as the Alcala 20 Nightclub Fire in Madrid, the Harrod’s bombing took place.
Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army planted a time-bomb in a car in front of Harrod’s Department Store, and issued a 37-minute warning before it exploded, during which time the area was evacuated. Six people were killed and 90 injured.
Two bombs exploded in France on December 31st, one on a high-speed train in Paris…
…and one in the luggage room of Marseille’s terminus train station.
The Venezualan terrorist Carlos the Jackal was convicted for these terrorist acts many years later, in December of 2011.
It seems like between 1945 and 1980, there were more regional civil wars, conflicts and proxy wars going on, where events and people in certain places were manipulated for particular outcomes, and at the same time, deceiving us about what was really going on to gain our consent; the implementation of communism in places around the world, with things taking place like citizenry being forced onto collectivized farms and subsequent famines resulting in the deaths of millions
…and the beginnings of terrorism as we have come to know it.
And then fast forward to doing this research now, and realizing that ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE ALL OVER THE EARTH STARTING IN 1981 in a way that I did not realize the year I graduated in high school.
Multiple Assassination attempts and assassinations; AIDS; explosions in mines; frequent plane crashes and planes blown out of the air by bombs; many massacres and atrocities against innocent civilian populations; regular people traumatically dying at theaters and night clubs, and fires of all kinds; suicide bombings; and on and on and on. And that is just from 1981 to 1983.
Certainly, some of the incidents attributed to accident could have actually been accidents, but back then, we didn’t even think about the possibilty they could have been intentionally caused for maximum psychological effect.
As we shall see, our collective human consciousness has been continuously seeded from 1981 onward with the notion we could meet a violent, horrible death, randomly, at any given moment, by forces beyond our control, and genocide was committed on large numbers of people in populations where there was armed conflict around the world, and that somehow all of this is normal. Over the years, our collective consciousess has been raised about false flags, defined operations committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party.
It is also interesting from the beginning of the 1980s forward was when the personal computer and internet came into being in our lives, ultimately allowing us to instantneously connect with each other all over the world and by-pass Mainstream Media for news and information. Definitely a very important development for our mass awakening and a way out of tyranny and dystopian nightmare that was planned for us.
Has the Earth’s population been experiencing a very calculated and undeclared Psychological War based on terror and trauma against all of Humanity for the last 40-years to bring us to what is going on against Humanity in the world in which we live in today?
There are many clues that what has taken place is part of someone or something’s blueprint, not the least of which is this quote attributed to Albert Pike regarding World War III in 1871. Albert Pike, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite’s Southern Jurisdiction, was believed to have written a letter to Italian Illuminatist Giuseppe Mazzini, with the military blueprint for three world wars.
This was what Pike was reported to have said with regards to World War I:
The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminatit to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic communism.
His reported words with regards to World War II:
The second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a soverign state of Israel in Palestine. During the second World War, International communism must become strong enough in order to control Christendom
And this about World War III:
The third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam and political Zionism mutually destroy each other.
Let’s just say for the sake of argument that Pike didn’t actually write these things in a letter to Mazzini in 1871.
But even if he didn’t, doesn’t this sound very familiar, like it was what has actually already taken place, and has been taking place in world history?
I am going to give an overview of modern history in this video series, starting with the three major wartime conferences between the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union – the Big Three of the Allied Powers during World War II – on up through the present-day, and see what comes to the surface that gives us more insight into the patterns that have led to the world we live in today.
I already have a feeling the patterns of what has taken place for Humanity since 1945 are not going to be nice.
The first Big Three wartime conference, the Tehran Conference was actually held in November of 1943, in which the Allies committed to open a second front against Nazi Germany, and two years after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August of 1941.
Reza Shah Pahlavi was deposed in September of 1941 as a result of the British and Soviet Invasion of Iran during World War II because he was seen as a German ally even though Iran had maintained neutrality in the conflict, and the invasion took place purportedly to secure Iran’s oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines along the Persian Corridor.
He was replaced as Shah by his young son at the time, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi…the last Shah, or Emperor, of Iran.
The next of the Big Three wartime conferences was the Yalta Conference, which was held between February 4th and 11th of 1945, near Yalta in Crimea, a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in what was the Soviet Union at the time.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the post-war reorganization of Germany and Europe.
Much was agreed to by the Big Three at the Yalta Conference, but what I want to highlight is the Declaration of Liberated Europe; the ratification of the agreement of the European Advisory Commission; and the groundwork for the United Nations.
The Declaration of Liberated Europe was created by the leaders of the three nations as a promise to allow the people to create democratic institutions of their own choice, and pledged the earliest possible establishment through elections governments responsive to the will of the people.
So this is what they all said…but what actually happened? More on this soon.
The European Advisory Commission (EAC) allowed each occupying power full control over its occupying zone, and the subsequent Cold War was reflected in the partition of Germany as each occupying force could develop its zone on its own without influence from any overseeing body.
More on the Cold War shortly.
With regards to the formal establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco in June of 1945…
…all the parties at the Yalta Conference agreed to an American plan concerning voting procedures in the Security Council, which had expanded to five permanent members ~ which were, with the inclusion of France, China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
It was only 6 months after the Japanese surrender that Winston Churchill proclaimed that “an iron curtain had descended across central Europe.”
On the east side of the curtain were the countries connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union, while on the west side were the countries that were NATO members or nominally neutral.
The third Big Three wartime conference was held in Potsdam, Germany between between July 17th and August 2nd in 1945.
They gathered to decide how to administer Germany after its unconditional surrender nine-weeks earlier on the May 8th of 1945.
Franklin Roosevelt’s death occurred on April 12th of 1945, and his Vice-President Harry S. Truman succeed him and represented the U. S. as President at the Potsdam Conference…
…and on July 28th, the new Prime Minister Clement Atlee replaced Winston Churchill as the representative for Great Britain at the Potsdam Conference.
A number of changes had occurred since the Yalta Conference that greatly Big Three relations in Potsdam.
By the time of the Potsdam Conference, the Soviet Union occupied central and eastern Europe – with the Red Army effectively controlling Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania – claiming this region was a legitimate sphere of Soviet influence as well as a defensive measure against future attacks.
Outcomes of the Potsdam Conference included, but was not limited to: the division of Germany and Austria into four occupation zones, with their capitals of Berlin and Vienna divided into four zones as well; the prevention of Nazi activity and preparation for the reconstruction of Germany into a democratic state; the decision to put Nazi war criminals on trial; war reparations to Allied countries; and the dismantling of Germany’s war industry.
It is important to note that during the same time period as the Potsdam Conference, the United States successfully tested the first atomic bomb on July 16th at Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The Potsdam Declaration was issued on July 26th, an ultimatum calling for the surrender of all Japanese forces or Japan would face prompt and utter destruction.
By August 5th of 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, destroying the city and killing over 70,000 people…
…and the second atomic bomb was dropped on the ship-building center of Nagasaki on August 9th, several days later, killing around the same number of people as Hiroshima.
Japan formally surrendered on August 15th of 1945, with the formal treaty signed on board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2nd of 1945.
The Potsdam Declaration was intended by the Big Three to be the legal basis for administering Japan after the war, and after Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Japan General Douglas MacArthur landed there in September, it served as the legal basis of the occupation’s reforms.
While the Emperor Hirohito was allowed to remain on the imperial throne, the Japanese constitution was completely overhauled, and the Emperor’s powers became strictly limited by law, and a parliamentary democracy was installed as the new form of government.
Also, after the August 15th surrender of Japan in 1945, the Korean peninsula was divided at the 38th-parallel into two zones of occupation, with the Soviets administering the northern half, and Americans the southern half.
In 1948, as a result of Cold War tensions, the occupation zones became two sovereign states – socialist North Korea and capitalist South Korea.
The governments of the two new Korean states both claimed to be the only legitimate Korean government, and neither accepted the border as permanent.
The beginnings of the Cold War are firmly rooted in the events of 1945.
Lasting from the formulation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was called “cold” because there was no direct fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union, but engaged instead in proxy wars by supporting different sides of major regional conflicts.
Truman was much more suspicious of the Soviets than Roosevelt had been, and saw Soviet actions in central and eastern Europe as aggressive expansionism.
President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine to Congress on March 12th of 1947, where he asked for money to contain the communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey.
It was an American foreign policy which had the stated purpose of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion and generally considered the start of the Cold War.
It led to the formation of NATO in 1949, a military alliance between western nations that still exists today.
The Warsaw Pact was signed in 1955 as a counter-balance to NATO between the Soviet Union and seven other eastern-bloc social republics of Central and Eastern Europe, and created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO.
Aside from nuclear arsenal development under the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, said to have been intended to discourage a pre-emptive attack by either side, and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union was expressed by psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, rivalry at sporting events, and the Space Race.
The Berlin Blockade, which took place between June 24th of 1948 and May 12th of 1949, was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies power, railway, road, and canal access to the sectors in Berlin under western control during the multi-national occupation of Berlin.
In response the western allies organized the Berlin Airlift, which lasted from June 26th of 1948 to September 30th of 1949, to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, flying over 200,000 sorties in one year to provide the people of West Berlin food and fuel.
Let’s see what’s going on in other parts of the world in the mid-1940s.
In China, the Chinese Civil War was fought off-and-on between the Nationalist Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party from 1927 to 1949.
Hostilities were being put on-hold between 1937 and 1945, when the two factions united in the face of the Japanese invasion of China and establishment of its puppet-state Manchukuo.
Generally referred to as the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Communists gained control of mainland China in 1949, forcing the leadership of the Nationalist Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan.
The Partition of India in 1947 divided British India into the Hindu-majority Union of India and the Muslim-majority Dominion of Pakistan…
…displaced 10 – 12 million people in forced mass migrations to the newly-constituted dominions, and created overwhelming refugee crises, as well as large-scale violence, thereby establishing the conditions for suspicion and hostility between these two countries that has existed into the present-day.
This movement of people started after India’s official Independence Day from Great Britain on August 15th of 1947.
So much for the non-violent independence movement Mohandas Gandhi had led for 25-years prior, and Gandhi himself was assassinated on January 30th of 1948.
Now with regards to the creation of the State of Israel.
Great Britain had been granted a colonial mandate for Palestine and Transjordan by the League of Nations on April 25th of 1920, which lasted until the formation of Israel in May of 1948.
A League of Nations Mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another after World War I, in this case territories that were conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918.
Despite growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews, Truman ultimately decided to recognize Israel.
David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the modern State of Israel on May 14th of 1948, and President Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
On the same day the new State of Israel was proclaimed, and the British Army withdrawn, gun-fire broke out between Jews and Arabs, and Egypt had launched an air assault that evening.
The Korean War started in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th following clashes along the border and insurrections in the South.
North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea by the United Nations, principally from the United States.
The United Nations Security Council denounced the North Korean move as an invasion, authorizing the formation of the United Nations Command and forces to Korea, and the decisions to do this were made without the participation of Security Council members China and the Soviet Union.
One of the first major engagements of the war was the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter between the UN Command and North Korean forces, which took place between August 4th to September 18th of 1950, in which UN forces fought of North Korean forces for six-weeks, and ultimately were able to break free from the perimater, a 140-mile, or 230-kilometer, long defensive line around the southeastern tip of South Korea.
Shortly after a UN counter-offensive was launched from Incheon in September of 1950, the Chinese entered the war, triggering a retreat of UN forces, and by December, China was in South Korea.
The Korean War ended in 1953, during which time there was a back-and-forth going on – Seoul was captured numerous times, and communist forces were pushed back to the 38th-parallel numerous times, creating a stalemate in the ground-war.
From the air, North Korea was subject to a massive U. S. bombing campaign, and the Soviets flew in covert missions in defense of their Communist allies.
The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27th of 1953, ending the fighting; creating the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea; and allowing for the return of prisoners.
No peace treaty was signed, however, and the two Koreas are still technically at war in a frozen conflict.
The Korean War was one of the most destructive conflicts of modern times, with around 3,000,000 deaths due to the war, and proportionally, a larger civilian death toll than either World War II or the Viet Nam War; caused the destruction of nearly all of Korea’s major cities; and there were thousands of massacres on both sides.
The Geneva Conference was convened in 1954 in Geneva, Switzerland, to settle unresolved issues from the Korean War and the First Indochina War in Viet Nam, and attended by representatives from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China, as well as from Korea and Viet Nam.
The Geneva Conference was held in the Palace of Nations, the home of the United Nations Office in Geneva, said to have been built between 1929 and 1938 to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations.
While no declarations or proposals were adopted with regards to Korean situation, the Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina would have major ramifications.
The French military forces in Viet Nam, formerly part of French Indochina, had been decisively defeated in May 7th of 1954 by the Communist Viet Minh forces under Ho Chi Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
The very next day the discussions on French Indochina began at the Geneva Conference, and the western allies did not have a unified position on what the conference was to achieve in relation to French Indochina.
The Geneva Accords establish North and South Vietnam with the 17th parallel as the dividing line, and the French agreed to remove their troops from North Viet Nam.
The agreement also stipulates that elections are to be held within two years to unify Vietnam under a single democratic government.
These elections never happen.
The non-Communist puppet government set up by the French in South Viet Nam refused to sign.
The United States also refused to sign on, with the belief that national elections would result in an overwhelming victory for the communist Ho Chi Minh who had so decisively defeated the French colonialists.
Within a year, the United States helped establish a new, anti-Communist government in South Viet Nam, and began giving it financial and military assistance.
A mass migration took place after Viet Nam was divided.
Estimates of upwards of 3 million people left communist North Viet Nam for South Vietnam, going into refugee status in their own country, and many were assisted by the United States Navy during Operation Passage to Freedom.
An estimated 52,000 people moved from South to North Viet Nam, mostly Viet Minh members and their families.
The Chinese occupation of Tibet started in 1950, when China invaded Tibet and engaged in a military campaign at the Battle of Chamdo to take the Chamdo Region from an independent Tibetan state, one of three traditional provinces of Tibet along with Amdo and U-Tsang.
As a result, Chamdo was captured by the Chinese, and Tibet was eventually annexed when the State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolved Tibet on March 28th of 1959, and it became known as the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China in 1965.
Since that time, over a million Tibetans have been killed, and monks, nuns, and lay-people who protest ending up as political prisoners who are tortured and held in sub-standard conditions.
China has a policy of resettlement of Chinese citizens to Tibet; Chinese is the official language; and Tibetans have become a minority in their own country.
Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader, the 14th-Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and other Tibetan refugees escaped to Dharamsala in India during the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, where he established the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile which is not recognized by China.
Joseph Stalin passed away in 1953.
The guy who was so chummy with the other leaders at the Big Three wartime conferences was a brutal dictator.
He rose to power in 1924 after Lenin’s death, and became a dictator, ruling by terror with a series of brutal policies which left countless millions of his own citizens dead.
Between 1928 and 1940, Stalin enforced the collectivation of the agricultural sector, by stripping people who owned land and livestock of their holdings, forcing people to join collective farms, and rounding up and executing higher-income farmers, and confiscating their land.
Instead of increasing the food supply, this policy caused food shortages, which in turn led to what was called the Great Famine between 1932 and 1933, with millions of people perishing from starvation.
The height of Stalin’s terror campaign was known as the Great Purge, taking place between 1936 and 1938, during which time an estimated 600,000 Soviet citizens were executed, and millions more were deported, or imprisoned in forced labor camps known as gulags.
Not a nice man.
Neither was Chairman Mao, who was doing much the same kinds of things to his people in China.
For one example, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party launched the Great Leap Forward in 1958 for the citizenry to industrialize China by the mass mobilization of the country’s population into agriculturally-based communes to increase grain supply.
It had the same effect as forced farming collectives had in the Soviet Union, resulting in the Great Chinese Famine, with an estimated number of deaths ranging between 15- and 55-million, the largest in history, not to mention that researchers give of up to 3-million people being tortured to death or executed for violating the policy.
The Cold War-era Nuclear Arms Race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, Soviet Union and their respective allies.
The first Soviet atomic bomb was detonated on August 29th of 1949.
A ring of spies in the Manhattan project led by German physicist Klaus Fuchs and American physicist Theodore Hall had kept Stalin well-informed on the American progress, including detailed designs.
Fuchs arrest in 1950 led to the arrest of other suspected Russian spies, including Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were convicted of espionage in 1951 and executed in 1953, the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, vaporizing whole islands, carving craters into its shallow lagoons, and exiling hundreds of people from their homes.
Novaya Zemlya is a boomerang-shaped island off the northern coast of Russia, where there is a history of nuclear testing by the Russians, including over 224 nuclear detonations at Novaya Zemlya between 1955 and 1990.
The most powerful nuclear weapon ever, the hydrogen bomb “Tsar Bomba,” was detonated at Novaya Zemlya in 1961.
The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Test Base had four nuclear testing zones at Lop Nur, a former salt lake in China’s Uighur Autonomous Region, starting in 1959 – with H-Bomb detonation in 1967 – until 1996, with 45 nuclear tests conducted.
France had its nuclear testing program in Reggane in Algeria between 1960 – 1961, before Algeria’s independence. They conducted four atmospheric nuclear tests, which contaminated the Sahara Desert with plutonium, negatively impacting those who live here to this day – not only Reggane, but far beyond.
Between 1960 and 1966, a total of 17 nuclear tests were conducted in the Reggane District of Algeria. It is called Africa’s Hiroshima.
The Space Race was a competition to achieve spaceflight firsts, with origins in the ballistic-missile-based nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II.
Quickly achieving spaceflight capabilities such as satellites, uncrewed space probes, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the moon was seen as necessary for national security.
The beginning of the Space Race was seen as the date of August 2nd of 1955, when the United States announced it was going to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, and the Soviets responded by saying they were going to launch on in the near future, and they ended up having the first successful launch, with Sputnik I on October 4th of 1947.
The peak of the Space Race was considered to be the what we are told was the United States landing the first humans on the moon on July 20th of 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission.
Senator Joseph McCarthy became the public face of a period of time in which Cold War tensions propelled fears of widespread Communist subversion in the United States.
In 1950, one of the U. S. Senators from Wisconsin, McCarthy said he had the names of 205 Communists working at the State Department, which prompted the Senate to form a special committee to look into the allegations, the outcome of which was said to not find much supporting evidence.
When he became chair of the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee in 1952, McCarthy called more than 500 people before the committee for questioning – people in the federal government, universities, the film industry, and elsewhere.
He was ultimately censured by the Senate in 1945 for “conduct unbecoming a senator.”
The definition of McCarthyism is making baseless accusations of subversion or treason without any proper regard for evidence, especially when referring to Communism.
A lot of what we see playing out in our world right now makes me wonder if these claims about communist infiltrators was baseless…or actually based in fact….
The short-lived Hungarian Uprising took place from October 23rd of 1956 to November 10th of 1956 against Soviet control and policies, and was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II.
The symbol of it was the Hungarian flag with the communist emblem cut-out.
Starting out as a student protest, the movement turned into a much larger revolt, and the government collapsed, and thousands organized themselves in militias battling the Hungarian army and Soviet troops.
The revolution was ultimately crushed when a large Soviet force invaded Hungary and by January of 1957, a new Soviet-installed government had suppressed all opposition.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was an invasion of Egypt by Israel followed by the British and French to regain western control of the Suez Canal and remove Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser who had just nationalized the canal, which prior to that was owned primarily by Britain and France.
The invasion was quickly stopped upon political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations.
Britain and France were humiliated and Nassar was strengthened.
Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 after overthrowing Cuban President Fulgencio Batista via guerrilla warfare, and subsequently assuming military and political power as Cuba’s Prime Minister.
He was ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban Nationalist, and under his administration, Cuba became the first one-party Communist state in the western hemisphere.
The United States opposed Castro’s government, and Castro aligned himself with the Soviet Union.
More on Castro’s Cuba in the next part of this series.
The first CERN particle accelerator became operational in Geneva, Switzerland on February 5th of 1960, described as a unique tool for penetrating deeper into the knowledge of matter.
On March 6th of 1960, it was announced that 3,500 American soldiers were going to be sent to Viet Nam for the first time, after North Viet Nam escalated military operations against South Viet Nam.
As seen in this blog post, there are patterns that can be detected when looking at the historical narrative. These patterns seen in the period of time from 1945 to 1960 show how events and people were manipulated for particular outcomes benefiting the world powers at the expense of other countries and their people. At the same time, they were deceiving us about what was really going on in order to gain our consent, like with the examples of partitioning one country into two, setting up two different political systems, and then instigating them to fight each other, and the inherent brutality against Humanity of communism, to name a few.
We are conditioned to see all of this as normal, but it’s not!
Someone or something is benefiting from it all, but not Humanity.
I am looking for the patterns in the historical narrative itself that give us more insight into the world we live in today.
So far the patterns I found between 1945 and 1960 show events and people being manipulated for particular outcomes benefiting the world powers at the expense of other countries and their people, and at the same time, deceiving us about what was really going on to gain our consent, like with the examples of partitioning one country into two, setting up two different political systems, and then instigating them to fight each other, like in the cases of Korea and Viet Nam, and the inherent brutality against Humanity of communism.
Let’s see what comes to the surface in our historical narrative of this nature between 1961 and 1980, those events about which we have been taught about and which the older generations alive today have memory of happening, either from experience or the news.
My starting point for “Seeing World History with New Eyes – 1961 – 1980” is the Berlin Wall.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev ordered the Berlin Wall to be built in 1961 after 160,000 East German refugees crossed into West Berlin following major food shortages.
Berlin was located entirely within the Soviet part of the country.
As mentioned previously in this series, during the Yalta Big-Three Conference held in February of 1945, the European Advisory Commission (EAC) allowed each occupying power full control over its occupying zone, and the subsequent Cold War was reflected in the partition of Germany as each occupying force could develop its zone on its own without influence from any overseeing body.
Berlin was split into similar sectors.
The Soviets took the eastern half, while the other Allies took the western. This four-way occupation of Berlin began in June 1945.
Subsequently, in August of 1961, the Communist government of East Germany, also known as the German Democratic Republic, began to build a wall of concrete and barbed wire between East Berlin and West Berlin.
It was built ostensibly to prevent western “fascists” from entering the country, but the even bigger reason was to contain the citizens of East Berlin, and made it harder for them to leave, not that they didn’t try.
Once the wall was constructed the only access between East Berlin and West Berlin was via three checkpoints – Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie.
On June 26th of 1963, John F. Kennedy delivered a famous addresses to a crowd of more than 120,000 in West Berlin, in which he said “I am a Berliner.”
Also, during John F. Kennedy’s administration, United States tensions with Fidel Castro’s Cuba intensified after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion between April 17th and 20th of 1961, when Cuban exiles invaded via a counter-revolutionary military brigade that were secretly funded by the CIA, and included some U. S. military personnel and trained in Guatemala.
However, the brigade was badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after 24-hours of fighting.
The Cuban Missile Crisis took place the year before Kennedy’s speech in Berlin, which started on the 16th of October in 1962, and ended a little over a month later.
It was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which is considered the closest the two countries came to full-scale nuclear war, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear ballistic missiles to Cuba as a response to the United States deploying nuclear ballistic missiles to Italy and Turkey.
An agreement was reached between Nikita Kruschev and Fidel Castro to place the missiles on the island in the summer of 1962 at Castro’s request to deter future invasions, and the construction of missile sites on Cuba was confirmed by U-2 spy plane photos.
After consulting with the National Security Council, Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba on October 22nd, in order to stop further missiles from reaching Cuba.
The blockade was formally lifted on November 20th of 1962, after negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union resulted in the dismantling of their offensive weapons, and a U. S. promise not to invade Cuba again.
Civil Wars started in Guatemala in 1960 between the government and leftist rebel groups supported by the Maya and Ladinos, a distinct Spanish-speaking ethnic group, who comprise the rural poor in Guatemala.
Civil Wars in Guatemala lasted until 1996.
The military forces of the Guatemalan government have been condemned for genocide of the Maya and for widespread human rights violations against civilians, with some of the context being longstanding issues of unfair land distribution.
Companies such as the American United Fruit Company controlled much of the land in Guatemala, conflicting with the rural poor.
The United Fruit Company came into being with the merger of Minor C. Keith’s banana trading business and the Boston Fruit Company of Andrew W. Preston in 1899, and came to control large parts and transportation networks of Central America, and maintained a monopoly in certain regions which became known as Banana Republics, like Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
The United Fruit Company, monopolized all of Guatemala’s banana production and export, as well as owning the country’s telegraph and telephone system, and most of its railroad track.
The United Fruit Company has been described as an exploitative multinational corporation that influenced the economic and political development of these countries in a deep and enduring way.
The company known today as Chiquita Brands International came out of the United Fruit Company.
It is interesting to note that in 1897, two years before United Fruit Company was formed, the Central American Exposition was held in Guatemala.
We are told it was constructed to highlight the railroad between Iztapa on the Pacific Coast and Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic Coast, but that for a variety of reasons, including the railroad not being finished at the time of the Exposition, it was considered a dramatic failure for Guatemala.
In Viet Nam by the time of John F. Kennedy’s death in November of 1963, there were 16,000 American military personnel, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident took place in 1964, an international confrontation after which the United States engaged more directly in the Viet Nam War.
The first Gulf of Tonkin incident took place on August 2nd of 1964 between ships of North Viet Nam and the United States.
The description of what took place is as follows:
Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats approached the naval destroyer U. S. S. Maddox and attacked it with torpedos and machine gun fire.
Damages said to have come about as a result of the ensuing battle were: one U. S. aircraft; all three North Vietnamese torpedo boats and 4 North Vietnamese deaths; and one bullet hole on the naval destroyer, and no American deaths.
There was initially allegedly a second incident on August 4th of 1964, this second occurrence has long been said not to have taken place.
And then there are the people who believe the first Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened either.
Whether or not the Gulf of Tonkin incidents actually happened, they were used as an excuse for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by Congress on August 7th of 1964, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson authority to help any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be in jeopardy of Communist aggression, and was considered the legal justification for the beginning of open warfare with North Viet Nam and the deployment of American troops to Southeast Asia, of which, with the institution of the draft, there were over 500,000 troops sent by 1966.
Even the country neighboring Viet Nam in Southeast Asia, Laos, had its own problems with the Viet Nam war spilling over, with Laos being bombed by American planes starting in 1964, in retaliation we are told, for the shooting down of an American plane by insurgents, and after which bombing runs over Laos intensified, with over 100,000 bombing runs on Laos’ eastern border with North Viet Nam.
There were numerous hot wars going on in diverse places in the 1960s in the aftermath of World War II, too many to go into great detail but this is a list of what was happening:
The Portuguese Colonial Wars took place in the years between 1961 and 1974 involving the Portuguese military and nationalist movements in Portugal’s African colonies, primarily in the countries of Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea.
The Indo-Pakistani War in 1965, a 17-day conflict in September of that year between India and Pakistan that caused thousands of deaths on both sides and featured a large engagement of armored tank vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II.
The Six-Day War between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria took place in June of 1967.
By the end of the Six-Day War, Israel had gotten control of the Sinai Peninsula, and the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem.
The eight-year-long Algerian Civil War ended in 1962, at which time Algeria became independent from France, but only after armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front, involving guerilla warfare, the use of torture, and civil wars between and within different communities of Algerians.
Other examples of Civil Wars starting in Africa in the 1960s include the countries of Sudan; Chad; and Nigeria.
There were two Civil Wars in Sudan.
The first Sudanese Civil War lasted for 17-years, from the time tensions started to develop in 1955, to the Addis Ababa agreement in 1972, between the northern part of Sudan, and the southern Sudan region that wanted representation and more regional autonomy.
During that 17-year-period, over half-million people are estimated to have died.
This is what we are told.
The British government administered the primarily Muslim and Arab Northern Sudan and mostly Christian and animist Southern Sudan as separate regions under international sovereignty until 1956, at which time the two regions were merged into a single administrative region as part of British strategy in the Middle East, and without the consultation of the minority southern leaders, who were fearful of being absorbed into Northern Sudan, for whom the British had shown favoritism, and tensions between the North and South escalated between the two.
Following Sudan’s independence from Britain, the southern ruling class were powerless in the merged Sudan’s politics and government compared to the northern ruling class, and unable to address the injustices against their people.
Hostilities escalated characterized by insurgencies and political turmoil…
…including in-fighting between Marxist and non-Marxist factions in the ruling military class.
What is “just war” theory?
There must be six conditions met before a war is considered “just:”
The war must be for a just cause.
The war must be declared lawful authority.
The intention behind the war must be good.
All other ways of resolving the problems should be first tried.
There must be a reasonable chance of success.
The means used must be in proportion to the ends that the war seeks to achieve.
How must a “just war” be fought:
Innocent people and combatants should not be harmed.
Only appropriate force shall be used.
Internationally agreed conventions regulating war must be obeyed.
The 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement was observed by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, and led to more regional autonomy for South Sudan, and while providing stability for South Sudan for a number of years, it was only temporary with the onset of the Second Sudanese Civil war between 1983 and 2005.
The history of Sudan goes back to the Pharaonic period of ancient Egypt, with the Kingdom of Kerma in ancient Nubia (dated from 2500 to 1500 BC)…
…the Egyptian New Kingdom dated between 1500 BC and 1070 BC…
…and the Kingdom of Kush, dated from 785 BC to 350 AD, with its royal capital at Meroe, located on the Nile River where it flows through in northeast Sudan in northeastern Africa.
There have been roughly three Civil Wars in Chad since independence from France in 1960.
The first one started in 1965 and lasted until 1979, and was waged by rebel factions against the authoritarian and corrupt regime of Chadian President Francois Tombalbaye.
At the time of Chad’s independence from France in 1960, roughly half of the population was Muslim and lived in the north and eastern parts of the country, and the other half was Christian and animist and lived in the southern part of the country.
Apparently, President Tombalbaye was from the southern part of the country, granting favors to his political supporters in the South while at the same time marginalizing the rest of the country.
He also filled prisons with thousands of people he believed were his opponents, whether they really were or not.
Tension and discontent grew, and several opposition groups started to organize a resistance movement.
Initially, Tombalbaye’s military crushed civilian demonstrations in 1962, and he relied heavily on French support to maintain power.
The Chadian Civil War officially started with the Mangalme, or Mubi, Uprising in September and October of 1965, involving a series of riots that started after a tax increase on personal income, which was tripled in certain areas.
Local citizens accused the government of corruption and tax collection abuses.
The military was sent in and crushed the riots, killing approximately 500 people.
Thus began the 14-year-long first Chadian Civil War.
Tombalbaye was eventually killed in coup in 1975, and was replaced by the former commander of the national army, Felix Malloum.
Malloum was a southerner with strong kinship ties to the North, who thought he could reconcile Chad’s divisions.
In the summer of 1977, rebels under the command of Goukouni Oueddei and supported by Libya, launched an offensive from the northern part of the country, and was the first time modern Soviet military equipment came into the Civil War, forcing Malloum to ask for help from France.
After the 1977 Khartoum Peace agreement, two Chadian northern military leaders, Hissene Habre and Goukouni Oueddei, came together in order to oust the southern government of Felix Malloum on March 23rd of 1979.
Then, Goukouni Oueddei seized power later that year, and became President of the Transitional Government of National Unity, composed of northerners supported by different factions that were close to Habre.
This state-of-affairs triggered the Second Chadian Civil War between 1979 and 1986.
Chad in the modern-day is one of the poorest countries in the world, with most of its inhabitants living in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers.
Here’s another way of looking at Africa…
…and Chad has sizeable reserves of crude oil, which is the country’s primary source of export earnings.
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, began in July of 1967, and ended in January of 1970, between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra, representing the nationalist desires of the Igbo people as a result of violence and repression against them by the Nigerian government after the British de-colonized Nigeria between 1960 and 1963.
Apparently control over the oil-rich Niger delta was also a strategic factor in the war.
The Nigerian government used genocide and starvation as a weapon to win the Civil War by blockading Biafra from civilization.
A humanitarian airlift was organized to supply food to the people of Biafra during the years of the civil war, but the whole conflict brought suffering and death to the innocent.
The Cultural Revolution in China lasted from 1966 to 1976.
It was a violent social and political purge under Mao Zedong, Communist Party of China (CPC) Chairman, with the stated goal of removing traditional and capitalist elements from Chinese society in order to preserve Chinese Communism.
Soon, Chairman Mao called on young people to “bombard the headquarters” in schools, factories, and government institutions apparently in order to eliminate his rivals within the CPC.
He insisted that middle-class elements in Chinese society who wanted to restore capitalism be removed through violent class struggle.
The death of Chairman Mao in 1976 ended the Cultural Revolution. During this ten-year period, there was an estimated death toll of somewhere between hundreds-of-thousands to 20 million, and severely damaged China’s economy and traditional culture.
Civil War started in Cambodia in 1967, and lasted until 1975.
It was a war fought between the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia under Prince Sihanouk and the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, known as the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong.
Cambodia is in Southeast Asia, sandwiched between Thailand, Laos, and Viet Nam.
Prince Sihanouk’s policies in the early 1960s initially protected his nation from the turmoil that engulfed Viet Nam and Laos.
His balancing act eventually went awry with all the forces-at-play during that time, and ultimately the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, and Prince Sihanouk was exiled.
Between 1975 and 1979, Cambodia was ruled by Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Communist Party, and his Khmer Rouge party, leading to the genocide of the Cambodian people, considered to be one of the bloodiest in history, in which an estimated 1.5 – 2 million deaths occurring, in part due to Pol Pot’s goals of turning Cambodia into a socialist agrarian Republic by forced relocation of its people to labor camps in the countryside.
Many people were just taken out into fields and summarily executed, giving us the name of “The Killing Fields,” the title of a 1984 film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia based on the experiences of two journalists, one Cambodian and one American.
The Troubles in Northern Ireland lasted from 1969 to 1998.
Though the terms Catholic and Protestant were used to refer to the two sides, it was more of a political and nationalistic conflict that was fanned by historic events.
Though there are differences of opinion on the exact start of the Troubles, two events in August of 1969 are generally agreed to officially constitute the beginning of them.
The first occurred on August 12th of 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland.
That was the first day of what was called the Battle of the Bogside, a very large communal riot between residents of the Bogside area, a majority nationalist-Irish-Catholic community outside the walls of Derry.
Fighting took place between the Catholic Irish Nationalists, and the Royal Ulster police, which was formed after the partition of Ireland in 1922, and Protestant Irish Unionists professing loyalty to the British Crown.
The event which provoked the onset of hostilities was the occurrence of an Apprentice Boys of Derry parade, a fraternal Protestant society founded in 1814 to commemorate the 1688 & 1689 Sieges of Derry, when there were two attempts by the Catholic King James II of England & Ireland and VII of Scotland, the first one of which was foiled by thirteen Apprentices.
When the parade ended, fighting erupted between local unionists and police on one-side and Catholic nationalists on the other side, and rioting continued for three days.
Among other things, local boys climbed onto rooves in order to bomb the police below with projectiles, which came to included stones and home-made gas bombs.
The second event was the arrival of British troops in Bogside on August 14th of 1969.
The unrest and violence of The Troubles escalated across Northern Ireland between the Irish Catholic Nationalists and Irish Protestant Unionists for thirty years to come.
Between 1971 and 1979, Idi Amin was Uganda’s President.
He was considered one of the most brutal dictators in world history, with his rule of Uganda characterized by rampant human rights abuses, and persecution of certain ethnic groups and political dissidents among other things.
The 1972 Munich Olympics are remembered for the occurrence of the Black September Palestinian terrorist attack the second week of the Olympics, in which 8 terrorists took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage after killing two of the team’s members and a West German police officer.
I remember this happening very well.
I was nine-years-old at the time and enjoying watching the Olympic Games.
Then this happened.
The Palestinian terrorists demanded the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and the West German-held founders of the German far-left militant group Red Army Faction, Baader and Meinhof.
Five of the eight Black September terrorists were killed in a failed attempt to rescue the demanded hostages.
The three surviving terrorists were arrested, but then released in a hostage exchange following the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615, a Palestinian terrorist attack aimed at securing the release of the three surviving terrorists.
When the three Palestinian Prisoners were released, the Israeli government authorized Operation Wrath of God to track them down and kill them. Two out of the three were believed to have been killed.
Looking back on the 1972 events at the Munich Olympics with what we know now versus what we knew then, I have to ask the question if this was an early false flag event.
A false flag in our modern terminology is an operation committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party.
The Yom Kippur War was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab-states led by Egypt and Syria from October 6th to October 25th of 1973.
Egypt led a surprise attack into the Sinai, territory it had lost to Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967, and Syria unsuccessfully focused on ridding the Golan Heights of Israeli soldiers.
There was an Israeli counter-attack, and it didn’t happen.
On October 26th, the UN brokered a cease-fire between Egypt and Israel, ultimately leading to the first peace agreement being signed between the two countries in 1979.
Meanwhile, the cease-fire exposed Syria to military defeat and Israel seized even more territory in the Golan Heights.
Syria voted along with other Arab states in 1979 to expel Egypt from the Arab League.
Another noteworthy fall-out from the Yom Kippur War was the Oil Embargo that started in October of 1973.
The Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) proclaimed an oil embargo targeted at countries that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War, creating an international oil and gas crisis.
By the end of the embargo, in March of 1974, the price of oil had risen by nearly 300% and had many short- and long-term effects on global politics and economy.
The overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie took place on September 12th of 1974, in a coup initiated by a Marxist-Leninist factions in the military, and marked the beginning of a 17-year-long Ethiopian Civil War, which formally ended in 1991.
The war left at least 1.4 million dead.
The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, was the former ruling dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire.
Its members were lineal descendents of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba through their son Menelik I, the first Emperor of Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie was the last Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
The full title traditionally of the Emperors of Ethiopia was: “Elect of God, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings of Ethiopia.”
The Iranian Revolution that took place in 1979 culminated in the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on February 11, 1979…
…to be replaced by the Islamic Republic of Iran, with what is called a unitary theocratic-republican authoritarian presidential system subject to a Grand Ayatollah.
The revolution was supported by various Islamist and leftist organizations, as well as student movements.
So things changed considerably for the people in the Islamic Republic of Iran after 1979. This picture of the citizenry was taken in 2012…
…and these pictures were before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
The Central American Crisis started in the late 1970s with the eruption of major civil wars in the Central American countries of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
The U. S. government was deeply involved in efforts to prevent victories by Pro-Soviet Communist forces in these countries.
The Georgia Guidestones were unveiled on March 22nd of 1980 on a rural site in Elbert County Georgia.
Engraved on each face of the four large, upright stones, in eight different languages, was a message containing ten principles, or guidelines.
The very first guideline was “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”
What was up with that?
The remaining guidelines sound positive…but are they really?
Whoever was behind the Guidestones was unknown.
There were apparent focuses of population control, eugenics, and internationalism engraved on the guidestones.
I am happy to report that as of July 7th of 2022, the Georgia Guidestones are no more.
One was mysteriously destroyed in an explosion, and the rest were subsequently demolished.
Do the same patterns continue to emerge between 1961 and 1980 that we saw between 1945 and 1960 showing events and people being manipulated for particular outcomes benefiting the world powers at the expense of other countries and their people?
Like with the examples of partitioning one country into two, setting up two different political systems, and then instigating them to fight each other, like in the cases of Korea and Viet Nam…
…and the inherent brutality against Humanity of communism?
Among other examples, in Sudan we saw the former British colonial government arbitrarily divide the country into the primarily Muslim and Arab Northern Sudan and mostly Christian and animist Southern Sudan in 1956, and then create the conditions for protracted civil war by showing favoritism to the North and oppressing the South…
…and in Chad at the time of its independence from France in 1960, roughly half of the population was Muslim and living in the north and eastern parts of the country, and the other half was Christian and animist and living in the southern part of the country, and the conditions for civil war were created with an authoritarian and oppressive dictator who showed favoritism to the southern part of the country, and marginalized the rest of the country, in both cases leading to great suffering and death of the civilian population.
As we saw in the previous video between 1945 and 1960, at the same time India was liberated from British Rule in 1947, the country was partitioned into the Hindu-majority Union of India and the Muslim-majority Dominion of Pakistan…
…10 – 12 million people were displaced in forced mass migrations to the newly-constituted dominions, and created overwhelming refugee crises, as well as large-scale violence, thereby establishing the conditions for suspicion and hostility between these two countries that has existed into the present-day.
This movement of people started after India’s official Independence Day from Great Britain on August 15th of 1947.
Wouldn’t you think a country’s independence would be a great cause of celebration instead of a hellish nightmare?
In this video, we saw the Communists take down hereditary rulers in Cambodia and Ethiopia, also leading to great suffering and death of the civilian population…
Then the Islamic Revolution took down the hereditary Shah of Iran, to replace him with the Islamic Republic of Iran, leading to the severe repression of the civilian population in all ways.
All of this signifies that who or whatever is behind what has been taking place here does not value human life, and instead has sought to violently destroy it.
It certainly seems like there was there something bigger going on with all of these activities behind the scenes, and that they were not random occurrences.
I think we are seeing the unfolding of a plan that definitely does not have the best interests of Humanity at heart, and only benefits the power-and-control-hungry few that have been manipulating events behind scenes to control or destroy the original people and their advanced civilization.
There are three-parts to this post on “How the New World was Created from the Old World”, which is taken from a three-part series I did back in the summer of 2020.
I am expanding it now to include historical information I have come across in my research since then.
Part One is about “Trading Companies, Wars, Partitions, Conferences & Treaties;”
Part Two is on “Language, Religion, New Nobility, Corporatization, Colonization & Place Name Changes;”
And Part Three on “Maps, Globes & the Centuries of Exploration.”
European colonialism intentionally created divides over almost the entire landmass of the earth, creating new countries from lands that were taken, as well as divisions and discords between peoples that originally existed in harmony worldwide.
It also diagrams the means by which power and control were consolidated worldwide, mostly starting out as “trading” companies that ended up being very powerful in their respective regions, and after gaining complete control, transferring power and control of the regions to their respective European empires.
I will be providing numerous examples to illustrate how creating the New World from the Old World was accomplished.
Others means by which power and control were consolidated included partitions, wars, treaties, and conferences.
I will start with trading companies.
But before I begin talking about trading companies, it is important to discuss the meaning of “royal charters,””chartered companies,” and related-issues like “body corporate.”
This discussion will also come into play again in the subject of colonization, which I will also be touching on in part two of this post.
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under “royal prerogative” as “letters patent.”
“Royal prerogative” is a body of customary authority, privilege and immunity recognized in common and civil law jurisdictions within a monarchy as belonging to the sovereign that becomes widely vested in government.
“Letters patent” are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published, written order issued by a monarch or other head-of-state, granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation. Thus, they can be used for the creation of corporations or government offices, or for granting city status or a coat-of-arms.
We are told Royal Charters historically were used to make public laws, like the Magna Carta of King John in 1215 AD.
Since the 1300s in our historical narrative, royal charters have been used to grant a right or power to an individual or “body corporate,”‘” the formal term for a corporation.
A “body corporate” functions as a “legal person” in law that can do the things a human person is usually able to do but are not literal people.
A “chartered company” is an association with investors and shareholders that is “incorporated,” or formed into a new corporation, and granted rights for the purposes of trade, exploration, or colonization.
Until the 19th-Century, royal charters were the only means that a company could become incorporated, other than by an Act of Parliament.
Arms are granted by the most senior heralds via the previously mentioned “Letters Patent.”
Heralds are appointed by the British Monarch and delegated to act on behalf of the Crown on all matters of heraldry, besides the granting of new Coats-of-Arms, including genealogical research and the granting of pedigrees.
The use of Arms went from individuals to corporate bodies starting in 1438 with a Royal Charter of incorporation, and the earliest surviving grant of arms, for the “Worshipful Company of Drapers,” formally known as “The Master and Warden and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild and Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London,” and since then have been made continously including, but not limited to, companies & civic bodies.
When I think of the word “draper,” curtains come to mind, I guess because of the word “drapery,” which pertains to curtains.
Come to find out, the word “draper” is defined as a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing.
Hmmm.
Why all the fanfare and fancy titles for cloth merchants?
Was that the “Mystery of Drapers” referenced in the formal title of the company?
The College of Arms was said to have been first incorporated by a Royal Charter in March of 1484 under King Richard III, and then re-incorporated in 1555 under Queen Mary I of England.
The College of Arms has been on Queen Victoria Street in the City of London in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral since 1555.
This is the Coat-of-Arms for the College of Arms, with the motto “Diligent and Secret,” which interestingly the heraldry-wiki doesn’t know the meaning of.
Could it possibly mean exactly what it says – diligent and secret?
Like we don’t want you to know something, but we are sure working hard at what we are doing!
“The Laws of Heraldic Arms” governs the ‘bearing of arms,’which is the possession, use or display of arms, also called “Coats-of-Arms” and “armorial bearings.”
According to the “Law of Heraldic Arms,” “Coats-of-Arms” and other similar emblems may only be borne by 1) ancestral right, or descent from an ancestry through the male line; 2) or a grant made to the user under due authority, like the State or the Crown.
More to come on this in Part 2 of this post under the subject of “Colonization” with respect to “Ancestral Right.”
With regards to the “Law of Arms” as part of the general law, such armorial bearings are considered a form of property, and confer certain rights upon the grantee.
Now onto the subject of trading companies, starting with the British East India Company.
The British East India Company held a monopoly granted to it by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600 between South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope and Tierra del Fuego’s Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, until 1834 when the monopoly was lost.
East Indiaman was the general name of any sailing ship operating under charter or license to any of the East India companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th- through 19th-centuries.
The British East India Company ruled over parts of the Indian Subcontinent between 1757 and 1858, commencing after the 1757 Battle of Plassey, called a decisive victory over the Nawab of Bengal, Mir Jafar, after which time the Nawab ceded revenues to the what was called the “Company.”
Mir Jafar was considered the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company, and this was considered to be the start of British Imperialism in India, and a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas there.
The British East India Company arrived in what came to be known as Madras in 1600, making it their principal settlement, and we are told, constructed Fort St. George in 1644.
The British East India Company was said to have come here in order to have a port close to the Malaccan Straits, the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, and to secure its trade lines and commercial interests in the spice trade.
It is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world.
They succeeded in securing their goals, as the British East India Company obtained the Prince of Wales Island in the Malaccan Strait.
Prince of Wales Island is known today as Penang Island, the main constituent island of the Malaysian state of Penang.
Apparently the British East India Company was able to successfully take what they named the Prince of Wales Island from the Kedah Sultanate in 1786, which became the capital of the Straits Settlements, a group of British territories in Southeast Asia established in 1826, including Melaka and Singapore.
The Kedah Sultanate was an historical Muslim dynasty located in the Malay Peninsula, said to have dated as an independent state from 1136 AD.
Its monarchy was abolished with the formation of the Malayan Union in 1909, but restored and added to the Federation of Malaya in 1963.
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, was an administrative subdivision of British India, and established in 1652, and of which Elihu Yale became president in 1684.
Elihu Yale was a British merchant, trader, and a President of the British East India Company settlement at Fort St. George…
…who later became a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.
At its greatest extent, the Madras Presidency included most of southern India, including the whole of the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; parts of Odisha, Kerala, and Karnataka; and the union territory of Lakshadweep, a group of islands off India’s southwestern coast.
The Madras Presidency ended with the advent of Indian independence on August 15th of 1947.
Bareilly, in northern India, was a center of the ultimately unsuccessful Indian Rebellion of 1857.
At this time a major uprising took place in northern India, which lasted between 1857 and 1859 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
The last Mughal Emperor in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, a devout Sufi, a mystic and practitioner of the inward dimension of Islam, was deposed by the British East India Company in 1858, and exiled to Rangoon in Burma.
Through the Government of India Act of 1858, the British Crown assumed direct control of the British East India Company-held territories in India in the form of the new British Raj…
…and in 1876, Queen Victoria assumed the title of Empress of India.
King-Emperor and Queen-Empress were the titles used by the British monarchs in India between 1876 and 1948.
The tribe of Bhil Minas inhabits all three islands on Dhebar Lake near Udaipur in India.
The Bhils, who speak a subgroup of the western zone of the Indo-Aryan languages, are one of the largest indigenous groups in India, as well as among the most economically deprived peoples of India.
This is interesting to note because they are among the oldest communities in India and were inhabitants of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization.
The Bhil Minas tribe was the ruling tribe before the Mewar Kingdom, forced them to hide out in the Aravalli Hills, and they were named a criminal tribe by the British government in 1924 to keep them from regaining power over the Rajputs.
They were subsequently given protection as a Scheduled Tribe after the upliftment in 1949 of the Criminal Tribe Act, which had been enacted on October 12th of 1871.
The Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 criminalized entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals, and restrictions on their movements imposed, including men having to report to the police once per week.
A Scheduled Tribe is recognized by the Indian Constitution, have political representation, and yet they are legally totally or partially excluded from various types of services important for leading a healthy life, and altogether, the Scheduled Tribes of India make-up almost 10% of the population, and are considered India’s poorest people.
India was called the “Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire. and its largest, and most important, overseas possession.
Much of the British Empire was built around India, in order to provide routes to, or protection for, India.
India was prosperous and rich, in spices, silk, indigo, gold, cotton, and other products and resources.
Trade with, and eventual political dominance of large parts of India, was what provided Britain with large parts of its wealth in the 1700s through 1900s.
On March 20, 1602, Dutch East India Company was chartered to trade with India and Southeast Asian countries by the States General of the Netherlands, the Supreme Legislature of the Netherlands, granted it a 21-year monopoly for the Dutch spice trade.
It was a megacorporation, which is defined as a massive conglomerate (usually private) holding near-monopolistic, if not monopolistic, control over multiple markets.
It was chartered to trade with Mughal India, and primarily Mughal Bengal, from where 50% of textiles and 80% of silks were imported.
It has often been labelled a trading or shipping company, but was in fact a proto-conglomerate, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities, such as international trade, ship-building, production and trade of East Indian spices, Indonesian coffee, Formosan (Taiwan) sugar-cane, and South African wine.
The first formally listed public company by widely issuing shares of stock and bonds to the general public in the early 1600s, it was the world’s most valuable company of all-time, with a worth of $7.9-trillion.
It is considered by many to be to have been the forerunner of modern corporations.
Among other places, I found the Dutch East India Company in Cape Town, South Africa, establishing the first European settlement in South Africa there in 1652, called the VOC Cape Colony.
In 1814, it became the British Cape Colony, as it was ceded to the British Crown by the Netherlands after the British successfully invaded and took-over everything from the Dutch starting in 1806.
South Africa is the world’s leading producer of copper, platinum, uranium, and vanadium.
The British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company were the major players of a number of trading companies during that era.
Others included:
The French East India Company founded in 1661 to compete with first the British, and later the Dutch East India Companies, in the East Indies, the term given to the lands of South and Southeast Asia.
It was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, and was abolished in 1769 because it was said to have not been able to maintain itself financially.
The Swedish South Company was founded in 1626 to support trade between Sweden and its colony New Sweden.
The company established a settlement at Fort Christina, named after Queen Christina of Sweden, and is present-day Wilmington, Delaware.
Said to have been built in 1638, the first Swedish settlement in North America, and the principal settlement of the New Sweden Colony.
The activities of the Swedish South Company were finally dissolved in 1680, after New Sweden was annexed by New Netherland in 1655.
The Hudson Bay Company was granted a permanent charter by King Charles II of England on May 2nd, 1670, conferred two things on a group of French explorers: 1) A trading monopoly with London merchants over the lucrative North American fur trade; and 2) Gave them effective control over the vast region surrounding the Hudson Bay in Canada.
It is still in operation today as a Canadian retail business group operating department stores in several countries.
The British Northwest Company, a fur-trading business based out of Montreal in Quebec from 1779 to 1821, built their inland headquarters at Grand Portage in Minnesota in 1785, and was active there until 1802.
Grand Portage, along with Fort Niagara, Fort Detroit, and Michilimackinac in the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, were the four main fur-trading centers of the British Empire in North America.
The Royal Company of the Philippines was established by the royal decree of King Charles III of Spain, and had a monopoly on the trading industry between Spain and the Philippines, and to exploit the natural resources of the islands.
It also opened a large access to goods from the Orient that were imported into the Philippines.
The next subject I would like to introduce is that of “Partition,” and what that actually looked like in real life.
Partition is defined as a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland by some community.
Here are some examples I encountered in my research.
Another one of three presidencies of British India within the British Empire was the Bengal Presidency, which was formed following the dissolution of Mughal Bengal in 1757.
The Bengal Presidency was the economic, cultural, and educational hub of the British Raj, and its governor was concurrently the Viceroy of India for many years.
In 1905, Bengal Proper was partitioned, separating largely Muslim areas eastern areas from largely western Hindu areas.
In 1912, British India was reorganized and the Bengal Presidency was reunited with a single Bengali-speaking province.
Could this first partitioning of Bengal have been a human- and social-engineering project, and a practice run for the 1947 Boundary partition of India?
The 1947 Boundary Partition divided what was British India into two independent dominion states – the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. Today they are called the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
It involved the division of two provinces – Punjab and Bengal – based on district-wise non-Muslim or Muslim majorities, and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj.
The Partition of India in 1947 divided British India into the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan along religious lines, displacing 10 – 12 million people and creating overwhelming refugee crises in the newly constituted dominions, as well as large-scale violence. This created the conditions for suspicion and hostility between these two countries into the present-day.
The Pashtuns are the primary inhabitants of a region in Pakistan and in Afghanistan, in a region regarded as Pashtunistan, split between two countries since the Durand Line border between the two countries was formed in 1893 after the second Anglo-Afghan War.
The name sake of the line, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, was a British Diplomat and Civil Servant of the British Raj. We are told that together with the Afghan Emir, Abdur Rahman Khan, it was established to “fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence and improve diplomatic relations and trade.”
Well, that certainly sounds good…but what was really going on here?
The Durand Line cuts through the Pashtunistan and Balochistan regions, politically dividing ethnic Pashtuns and Baloch, who live on both sides of the border.
What was the actual purpose of dividing a people in this fashion?
The Pashtun are a tribal nation of millions of Afghani and Pakistani Muslims who also have a strong oral tradition that they are descendants of lost ten Tribes of Israel, and they refer to themselves as Bani Israel.
Here is an example of a Pashtun textile piece showing the sacred geometric shape of a star tetrahedron in the center, also known as the Star of David…
…and a recognizable symbol of what is called Judaism today, as seen on the flag of Israel.
Khorasan was a province in northeastern Iran from 1906 to 2004, but historically referred to a much larger area comprising the east and northeast of the Persian Empire, including, besides northeastern Iran, parts of Afghanistan and much of Central Asia.
While Khorasan was said to mean “The Eastern Province,”it is also said to mean “The Land of the Sun.”
During the Qajar Dynasty and Empire, of what was then called the Sublime State of Persia between 1789 and 1925, Britain supported the Afghans to protect their East India Company.
Herat in Afghanistan was separated from Persia by British in the Anglo-Persian War of 1856 – 1857, and the Persians were unable to defeat the British to take back Herat.
Persia was compelled by the Treaty of Paris of 1857 not to challenge the British for Herat and other parts of what is today Afghanistan. Khorasan was divided into two parts in 1906, with the eastern part coming under British occupation, and the western section remained part of Persia, shown here.
Another example was the Ottoman Empire, founded at the end of the 13th-century in northwestern Anatolia, and existing as a vast empire and center of interactions between east and west until the end of World War I, when it was defeated as an ally of Germany and occupied by Allied forces.
At this time, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and lost its Middle East holdings, which were divided between the Allied Forces.
Then there is what happened to historical Armenia, much of which today is a part of Turkey.
There was a time when Armenia was considered the center of the world, as depicted in this map.
The Sumerians called Ararat “Arrata,” and they tell of this land of their ancestors in the Armenian Highlands in their epic poem of Gilgamesh.
At the end of World War I, when the victorious powers divided up the Ottoman Empire, the 1920 Treaty of Sevres promised to maintain the existence of the Armenian Republic and to attach the former territories of Ottoman Armenia to it.
Ottoman Armenia was referred to as Wilsonian Armenia because the new borders were to be drawn by U. S. President Woodrow Wilson.
The Treaty of Sevres never came into effect because it was rejected by the Turkish National Movement, which used the occasion to declare itself as the rightful government of Turkey.
Turkish Nationalist Forces invaded Armenia in 1920 from the east, ultimately forcing most of the Armenian military forces to disarm, cede back the former Ottoman lands granted to Armenia by the Treaty, and to give up “Wilsonian Armenia.”
And during the same time frame, the Soviet Eleventh Army invaded Armenia, and ultimately took complete control of the rest of it in 1921.
Thus, the Turkish War of Independence initiated under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk against the occupying powers resulted in the abolition of the monarchy in 1922, and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
Ataturk was the first president of the new republic, moving the country’s seat of power from Istanbul to Ankara.
Obviously this region of historical Armenia was highly prized, and its people were persecuted and many were killed.
The next area I am going to look into specifically are wars themselves.
It is noteworthy there are so many military engagements historically that have taken place along these I have tracked, which include, but aren’t limited to, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, Viet Nam, among others.
It makes me wonder what they were really all about with regards to the ancient advanced Moorish Civilization and the earth’s energy grid system.
I find it interesting that General Charles Cornwallis, famous for being defeated at, and surrendering after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, ending the American Revolutionary War apparently was rewarded with knighthood in 1786, and in the same year became the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the British Colony in India.
He commanded the army that successfully stormed Nandidurg in 1791, an ancient hilltop fortress in Karnataka State that was at one time believed to have been impregnable.
This was during a conflict in South India between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore.
Here are some examples I found from the time of the Napoleonic Wars and empire.
The French invasion of Malta in 1798, led by Napoleon himself, was part of the Mediterranean Campaign in the War of the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
The Order of the Knights Hospitallers, the rulers of Malta since 1530, surrendered to Napoleon when the French landed there.
The island country of Malta is located in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and Tunisia.
We are told that during the short time Napoleon was in the capital city, Valletta, between June 12th and 18th of 1798, he reformed, among other things, national administration with the creation of a Government Commission and twelve municipalities; a public finance administration, and the organization of public education, providing for primary and secondary education.
All this before sailing for Egypt, and leaving a substantial garrison in Malta.
Huh?
All this in a week?
And why?
After the British Royal Navy destroyed the French Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of the Nile in Egypt on August 1st, 1798, the British were able to initiate a blockade of Malta, assisted by an uprising of the native Maltese against French rule. The blockade effectively ended the French Occupation of Malta in 1800, and replaced it with British Protectorate, returning control of the central Mediterranean to Great Britain.
In the 1814 Treaty of Paris, Malta officially became part of the British Empire and was used as a shipping way-station and fleet headquarters.
When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, Malta was considered an important stop on the way to India, a central trade route for the British, because it was half-way between the Strait of Gibraltar and Egypt.
Malta gained its independence from Britain in 1964.
We are told the Union of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, also known as the Oldenburg Monarchy, existed as a dual monarchy between 1537 and 1814, with Copenhagen as its capital.
The Oldenburg Monarchy had long-remained neutral in the Napoleonic Wars.
Britain was said to have feared that Napoleon would attempt to conquer the Danish-Norwegian naval fleet, and used that as a pretext to attack Copenhagen in what became known as the Siege of Copenhagen in August of 1807, and Britain seized the naval fleet in September of 1807.
This also assured the use of the sea lanes in the North Sea and Baltic Sea for the British merchant fleet.
The “fleet robbery” drew Denmark-Norway into the war on the side of Napoleon.
Then in 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Treaty of Kiel, between the United Kingdom and Sweden on the anti-French-side, and Norway and Denmark on the French-side, dissolved the Oldenburg Monarchy by transferring Norway to the King of Sweden.
The King of Denmark retained the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.
The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought for three years between the British East India Company and the Emirate of Afghanistan starting in 1839, after the British had successfully captured Kabul, and they capitalized on a succession dispute between a current and former Emir there, at which time the British exiled the Emir at the time and installed the former Emir.
When the main British forces occupying Kabul retreated in January of 1842, they were almost completely annihilated by Afghani tribesmen. In retaliation, the British sent what was called an “Army of Retribution” to Kabul to avenge their defeat, and demolished parts of the city, recovered prisoners, and left Afghanistan, with the exiled Emir returning from India to Kabul.
Destruction that was done in retaliation for people who were defending their own land from invading foreigners who wanted to take it.
The First Anglo-Afghan War is called one of the first major conflicts of what was called “The Great Game,” the 19th-century competition for power and influence in central Asia between Britain and Russia.
During World War I, the Strait of Dardenelles in Turkey was the location of the Gallipoli Campaign, one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
There were at least 24 forts in the Strait of Dardenelles, as they were numbered.
The Gallipoli Campaign took place between April 25, 1915, and January 9, 1916. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (known as Istanbul since 1923) and secure a sea route to Russia. The Ottomans were victorious at the end of this campaign.
There were direct attacks on the star forts in the Strait of Dardanelles – they were bombarded, and in many cases, completely destroyed.
These are examples of some of the things that took place during World War II.
Reza Shah Pahlavi was deposed in September of 1941 as a result of the British and Soviet Invasion of Iran during World War II because he was seen as a German ally even though Iran had maintained neutrality in the conflict, which took place purportedly to secure Iran’s oil fields and the railroad used a supply route for war material for the Soviet Union along what was called the “Persian Corridor.”
The 865-mile, or 1,392-kilometer, Trans-Iranian Railroad was opened during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1939.
He was replaced as Shah by his young son, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown as Head-of-State on February 11th of 1979, after which time the country became the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In 1945, in the last months of World War II, the Battle of Manila brought destruction and havoc to the city of Manila and its rail infrastructure.
The Manila Tranvias fleet was damaged beyond repair, and abandoned immediately after the war.
The rails were pulled up from the city streets, and surviving streetcars were hauled away and scrapped.
This was the end of what had previously been considered one of the best street-rail networks in Asia.
In the years between the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, an alleged international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Viet Nam War, in August of 1964 and its end in 1975…
…the neighboring country in Southeast Asia of Laos had its own problems with the Viet Nam war spilling over, with Laos being bombed by American planes starting in 1964, in retaliation we are told, for the shooting down of an American plane by insurgents, and after which bombing runs over Laos intensified, with over 100,000 bombing runs on Laos’ eastern border with North Viet Nam.
The Plain of Jars in Laos…
…was heavily bombed between 1964 and 1973 by the U. S. Air Force operating against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces, and it was said that the Air Force dropped more bombs on the Plain of Jars than it dropped during the entirety of World War II.
These were some unexploded bombs removed from the Plain of Jars from the secret war in Laos.
Per capita, Laos is the most bombed country in history!
Why?
The next area of research I would like to get into about how the New World was created from the Old World is the subject of Congresses and Conferences.
The Congress of Vienna was said to be one of the most important international conferences in European history.
It was a meeting of ambassadors of European states held in Vienna in Austria between 1814 and 1815 in order to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon.
The stated goal was to resize the main powers so they could balance each other and in this way remain at peace, and not simply to restore old boundaries.
As a result of the Congress of Vienna, France lost all of its recent conquests, while Prussia, Austria, and Russia made major territorial gains.
Most of the discussions took place in informal, face-to-face sessions among the ambassadors of Austria, Britain, France, Russia, and sometimes Prussia, with limited or no participation by other delegates.
As such, the Congress of Vienna never met in plenary session, which means a session in which all members of all parties are able to attend.
The Berlin Conference of 1884 – 1885 was organized by the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in order to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany’s sudden appearance as a imperial power.
The outcome of the “General Act of the Berlin Conference” can be seen as the formalization of the “Scramble for Africa,” also known as the “Partition of Africa” or the “Conquest of Africa,” was the invasion, occupation, and division of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period between 1884 and 1914, the year in which World War I started.
The period of history known as New Imperialism is characterized as a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Otto von Bismarck was the mastermind behind the unification of Germany in 1871, and served as its first chancellor until 1890.
While on one hand, he was said to have skillfully used balance-of-power diplomacy to maintain Germany’s position for 20-years in a peaceful Europe, at the same time the way he unified Germany was by provoking three short, decisive wars with Denmark, Austria, and France, and by abolishing the supra-national German Confederation, an association of 39 German-speaking states in Central Europe that was created by the Congress of Vienna to replace the former Holy Roman Empire, and formed the German Empire, which excluded Austria.
He also annexed Alsace-Lorraine on the border with Germany, which was part of France, as a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871.
We are told that France’s determination to regain Alsace-Lorraine, and fear of another Franco-German war, as well as British apprehension about the balance-of-power, became factors in the causes of World War I.
The last subject of this post are how treaties were used to create the New World from the Old World.
The Treaty of Utrecht, or Peace of Utrecht, was a series of what is described as peace treaties signed between April of 1713 and February of 1715 in the Dutch city of Utrecht by the belligerents in the War of Spanish Succession.
The War of Spanish Succession came about, we are told, when the last Hapsburg King of Spain, Charles II, died childless in 1700, and he named his grand-nephew Philip of France as his successor in his last will, who became King Philip V of Spain in 1700.
Philip was also the grandson of King Louis XIV of France, and also in line for the French throne.
The other major powers in Europe were not willing to tolerate the potential union of these two powerful states.
The Utrecht treaties allowed Philip to take the Spanish throne in return for permanently renouncing his claim to the French throne, and paved the way for the European system based on balance-of-power.
As an extra step, Great Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic sign the Triple Alliance as a way to maintain the Treaties of Utrecht on January 4th, 1717.
As a result of all of this treaty-making, the thrones of Spain and France were prevented from merging together, and the way was ultimately paved for the maritime, commercial, and financial supremacy of Great Britain.
The Treaty of Nanking, or Nanjing, between the British Empire and China was signed after China’s defeat, after the First Opium War in 1842.
The First Opium War was fought between Qing Dynasty of China and Britain between 1839 and 1842, a military engagement that started when the Chinese seized opium stocks at Canton in order to stop the opium trade, which was banned.
The British government insisted upon free trade and equality among nations and backed the merchants’ demands.
From 1757 to 1842, the Canton System served as a means for China to control trade with the west by focusing all trade in the southern port of Canton.
To counter this, the British East India Company began to grow opium in Bengal, in present-day Bangladesh, and allowed private British merchants to sell opium to Chinese smugglers for illegal sale in China.
As a result from these events in history, opium dens, establishments where opium was sold and smoked, became prevalent in many parts of the world throughout the 19th-century.
Millard Fillmore was the Vice-President to President Zachary Taylor, who was said to have died of problems from something he ate several days after attending a July 4th celebration in 1850. So he became President Millard Fillmore in 1850.
Commodore Matthew Perry played a leading role in the Opening of Japan, starting on July 8th, 1853, when he led four U. S. Navy ships ordered by President Fillmore to Tokyo Bay with the mission of forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade by any means necessary.
After threatening to burn Tokyo to the ground, he was allowed to land and deliver a letter with United States demands to the Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyoshi.
The Shogun Ieyoshi died a short time after Perry’s departure in July of 1853, leaving effective administration in the hands of the Council of Elders, though nominally to his sickly son, Iesada, who was the Tokugawa Shogun from 1853 to 1858.
The Tokugawa Shogunate is called the last feudal Japanese Military Government.
Perry returned again with eight naval vessels in February of 1854, and on March 31st of 1854, the Japanese Emperor Komei signed the “Japan and United States Treaty of Peace and Amity” at the Convention of Kanagawa under threat of force if the Japanese government did not open the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels.
Language, Religion, New Nobility, Corporatization, Colonization & Place Name Changes
Next, I am going to take a close look at how modern language, religion, creation of a new nobility, corporatization, colonization and place name changes were used to create the New World from the Old World, and obscure our true history.
I am going to start with the subject of the origins of modern English, Spanish and Italian.
This is what we are told about Modern English.
It is the form of the English spoken since the “Great Vowel Shift,”, a systematic change in the pronunciation of vowels for which the causes in England are unknown, which began in the mid-1400s and was completed by 1600.
Writings from the early 1600s, like the King James Bible, originally commissioned in 1604 and first published in 1611 under the sponsorship of King James VI and I, the first King of the Union of the Scottish & English Crowns which took place in March of 1603…
…and the works of William Shakespeare, with the publication of the First Folio in 1623, are considered to be early Modern English.
The works of Shakespeare single-handedly changed the English language of this time, with things like a huge vocabulary of 34,000 words and 2,000 new words!
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the English language, and the world’s most distinguished playwright.
There are few records of Shakespeare’s life, leading to speculation about every aspect of his life, including what he really looked like, and whether or not he was the actual writer of the works attributed to him.
With the colonization of the British Empire, English was adopted as a primary or secondary language around the world.
Early Modern Spanish was the form of Spanish used between the end of the 15th -century and the end of the 17th-century, and was marked by changes in speech sounds and grammar that transformed Old Spanish into Modern Spanish.
Early modern Spanish also corresponds to the period of Spanish Colonization of the Americas, along with the West Indies and East Indies, that I will be delving into shortly.
The first grammar text for Castilian Spanish was published in 1492 and dedicated to Queen Isabela I of Castile.
It was written by Antonio de Nebrija, a linguist and poet.
It was the first book dedicated to the Spanish language and its rules, and the first grammar of a modern European language to be published in print.
Antonio de Nebrija also published a Latin-Spanish Dictionary in 1492.
Alfonso de Palencia had published a Latin-Spanish dictionary two-years prior to Antonio de Nebrija, in 1490.
Alfonso de Palencia was a Castilian Royal Secretary who had played an active role in bringing Fernando II of Aragon to Castile and putting Isabela I of Castile on the throne.
In our historical narrative, the year of 1492 was also the year of the Fall of Granada in Moorish Spain and the year of Columbus’ first voyage. More on this shortly.
Miguel Cervantes was an Early Modern Spanish writer and widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language.
The novel Cervantes is best-known for was “Don Quixote,” considered the first modern novel and the first great novel of world literature, and originally published in two-parts – the first published in Spanish in 1605 and English in 1612; and the second in Spanish in 1615, and English in 1620.
According to Cervantes in the book’s Preface, the first chapters were originally part of “the Archives of LaMancha,” and Cervantes describes finding an Arabic manuscript written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, a Moorish historian, and brings him into the book as a narrator of the story, lending the impression that Don Quixote was a historically a real character, but the book has always been considered a work of fiction.
Despite the later fame of Miguel Cervantes, little is known about his life, including what he actually looked like, what his real name was, and what his background was.
This 1600 portrait of Miguel Cervantes by Juan de Juaregui is not only not authenticated, no authenticated portrait of Cervantes is known to exist.
With the colonization of the Spanish Empire, Spanish was also adopted as a primary or secondary language around the world.
Modern Italian, considered the closest of the Romance languages to Vulgar Latin, or the spoken form of Latin from the Late Roman Republic onwards in our historical narrative, was said to have developed in Tuscany in Central Italy, and was first formalized in the early 14th-century through the work of Florentine poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri, considered the “Father of the Italian Language.”
The exact year of Dante’s birth was unknown, and much about his early life and education is not known.
Dante Alighieri’s best-known work was the “Divine Comedy,” also considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature.
The “Divine Comedy” was a narrative poem believed to have been composed by Dante between 1308 and 1321, completed shortly before his death in September of 1321.
The poem has three parts – Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso – to which Dante journeys with a different guide for each, and the subject of the poem was the state of the soul after death, with Divine Justice being meted out as either due punishment or reward.
Dante’s first biography was written in 1348, 27-years after his death, by Giovanni Boccaccio, another Florentine whose writings established modern Italian.
Boccaccio would have been around 8-years-old at the time of Dante’s death, so he would have been a very young contemporary of Dante.
The 19th-century gave rise to a “Dante Revival,” and he was written about and translated by leading writers of the Victorian-era, like Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle in a lecture called “The Poet as Hero” and the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to completely translate the “Divine Comedy” into English.
More to come later on this type of finding in Part 3 of this post regarding the “Centuries of Exploration.”
Next, I am going to show how the subjects of religion, the creation of a new nobility, corporatization & colonization are all related to each other in how the New World was Created from the Old World.
In 1302, just a few years before Dante was said to have started writing the “Divine Comedy” about the state of the soul after death in 1308, Pope Boniface VIII issued the Unam Sanctum Papal Bull.
This Pope declared in the Unam Sanctum Papal Bull, among other things, that the Pope has the ultimate authority over all people, and that it was necessary for every human being to belong to the Catholic Church for eternal salvation.
A papal bull is an official public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by the Pope of the Catholic Church and named after the leaden seal, or bulla, used to authenticate it.
They figure prominently in the effort to authenticate what has taken place on earth in the historical narrative we have been taught, and function like the Royal Prerogative mentioned at the beginning of Part One of this video.
We are told the first Pope was the Apostle Saint Peter.
The Roman Catholic Church has played a prominent role in the history and development of western civilization as we know it.
Hold on!
Is this a statue of a Saint Peter with a dark complexion at the Vatican, or what?
Not only that, it is important to note that there are “Black Madonna” atatues found all over the world!
The Catholic Church teaches us that it is the “one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church,” founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission to spread the Gospel to all the nations of the world, and that it practices the original Christian faith taught by the Apostles, preserving the faith infallibly through scripture and sacred tradition through the authentic interpretation of the Church.
All of this bears further examination, since this is what we are taught.
Lets look at what this looked like in our historical narrative, starting with Queen Isabella I of Castile and Leon, also referred to as “Isabel the Catholic.”
Queen Isabella was Queen of Castile starting from 1474, and through her husband Ferdinand, Queen-Consort of Aragon.
Thus they were considered to have reigned together over a dynastically-unified Spain, and together known as the “Catholic Monarchs of Spain.”
In the background of this portrait are the Coats-of-Arms for Sardinia and Aragon.
The red arrow is pointing to the “Four Moors Heads” of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
The flag of Sardinia is known as the “Four Moors Flag,” on one hand said to symbolize Sardinia and its people, and on the other hand, said to represent the four victories achieved by the Kingdom of Aragon against the invading Moors.
It is interesting to note that there was a design of the “Four Moors” flag that appeared in the early 19th-century, with the Moors blindfolded and facing in the opposite direction of the flag as it appears today.
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand established the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 to maintain Catholic orthodoxy.
The Spanish Inquisition operated not only in Spain, but in all Spanish colonies and territories, and was intended was to identify heretics among those who converted from Judaism and Islam to Catholicism.
The activity of the Spanish Inquisition intensifed after royal decrees issued in 1492 and 1502 forced Jews and Muslims to either convert to Catholicism or be expelled from Spain.
The Spanish Inquisition was particularly known in history for brutality, torture, and burning people at the stake for “heresy,” which is defined as an opinion or belief that is different from the orthodox doctrine of the Church.
So we are taught that all of this is normal and matter of fact in history in school, like there is nothing out of the ordinary or wrong about the Inquisition…which was, by its very nature, violating basic Human Rights and dignity, including torture and death in the name of Christianity just for having dissenting beliefs.
The city of Grenada fell on January 2nd, 1492, effectively ending Moorish rule in Spain when Muhammad XII surrendered the Emirate of Grenada to King Ferdinand and Isabella.
Then, 7-months later, Columbus left Spain on his first voyage on August 3rd, 1492, ostensibly to find a westward route to Asia.
Initially, Queen Isabella had granted extensive authority to Christopher Columbus, but then withdrew that authority, instead putting it in the hands of her personal Chaplain, Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, in 1493.
The year of 1493 was the year that the Borgia Pope Alexander VI authorized the land-grab of the Americas in the “Inter Cetera” papal bull.
This papal bull became a major document in the development of subsequent legal doctrines regarding claims of empire in the “New World” and assigned to Castile in Spain the exclusive right to acquire territory, to trade in, or even approach the lands laying west of the meridian situated one-hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands, except for any lands actually possessed by any other Christian prince beyond this meridian prior to Christmas, 1492.
In terms of governance of the Spanish Empire, “the Indies” was the designation for all of its overseas territories, and the Trading House, also initially headed by Fonseca, was the agency which managed expeditions to the New World on behalf of the Spanish Crown from the 16th- to the 18th-century, and was organized by Queen Isabella in 1503.
The Trading House became an instrument of the Spanish Crown’s policy of centralization and imperial control.
Queen Isabella died in November of 1504.
Her remains, along with those of Ferdinand who died in 1516, were interred in the Royal Chapel of Granada, the chapel was said to have been built between 1505 and 1507 in the Isabelline Gothic architectural-style, called the dominant architectural style during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.
The Council of the Indies was created following the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, in the historical narrative we have been given.
The Spanish West Indies and East Indies were administered by the Council of the Indies, and the Crown of Spain held absolute power over the Indies.
The Council of the Indies instituted the Archives of the Indies, which contains priceless documents that provide a key to the history of Spain’s relationships with its overseas colonies in the Americas.
When the Viceroyalty of New Spain was established in 1535, of which Mexico City was the capital and the base for its expeditions for exploration and conquest, the islands of the Caribbean claimed by Spain came under its jurisdiction.
Also known as “New Spain,” it was considered a New World Kingdom ruled by the Crown of Castile, and not a colony.
The Spanish West Indies was the collective name for the islands in the Caribbean.
The islands claimed by Spain were Hispaniola, an island in the Greater Antilles which is divided into the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Cuba; Puerto Rico; St. Martin; the Virgin Islands; Anguilla; Montserrat; Guadalupe; the Lesser Antilles; Jamaica; the Cayman Islands; Margarita Island; Trinidad & Tobago; and the Bay Islands.
We are told that before Columbus arrived in his first voyage on what became known as Cuba on October 28th of 1492, and claimed its islands for the new Kingdom of Spain, the indigenous inhabitants were the Taino, the Guanahatabey, and the Ciboney people, who were all farmers and hunter-gatherers.
The first Spanish settlement and capital was Baracoa, still a municipality and city to this day in Guantanamo Province, near the eastern tip of Cuba.
Cuba’s capital today, Havana, was said to have been founded in 1515 as San Cristobal de la Habana.
Due to Havana’s strategic location, it served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and became a stopping-point, we are told, for the treasure-laden Spanish galleons on the crossings between the New World and the Old World…Treasure-laden…going from the Americas to Spain?
The indigenous peoples of Cuba were forced to work under the encomienda system, a Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subject people, and applied on a large-scale during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and Philippines and the harsh conditions of the repressive colonial subjugation, along with infectious diseases, virtually wiped-out the indigenous population of Cuba within a century.
Hispaniola was the second-largest island, and most populated, in the West Indies.
Today’s countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are co-located on the island.
The first permanent European settlements in the Americas were founded on Hispaniola in Christopher Columbus’ first three voyages.
We are told that the city of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola is the oldest continously inhabited European settlement, and the first seat of Spanish Colonial Rule, in the New World.
The first monastery, the San Francisco Monastery, said to have been built at Santo Domingo between 1509 -1560 with the arrival of the Franciscan Fathers.
The Franciscans were members of related-religious orders said to have been founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209.
Three Franciscan missionaries accompanied Christopher Columbus in his second expedition in 1493, and were sent by a special commission of the Franciscan order in response from royal instructions from the Spanish Crown aimed at bringing the indigenous people of the Americas to Catholicism.
The Franciscans were at the vanguard of missionary activity in the New World, and in 1502, seventeen more Franciscans arrived.
Santo Domingo became the base of operations for countless missionary expeditions to the islands, as well as to the mainlands of North, Central and South America.
Like Cuba, the primary indigenous people on the island of Hispaniola were the Taino people.
When Columbus landed on the coast of present-day Haiti on December 6th of 1492, the Taino traded more gold with him than he had yet encountered, and learned from them much more could be found inland.
The Spanish practiced harsh enslavement practices against the Taino, for labor to search for gold, and later mining, and to grow food to feed the Spanish settlers, as well as redirecting existing food supplies to the Spanish.
We are told that precious metals played a large role in the history of the island after Columbus’ arrival.
Gold nuggets of major significance were found on the island, resulting in the quick development of two mines and the “Gold Rush” of 1500 to 1508.
By 1503, the Spanish Crown legalized the distribution of indigenous people to work the mines through the encomienda system.
In 1504, what were called the Minas Viejas pit mines became royal mines for King Ferdinand, and almost 1,000 Taino were forced to work the mines.
We are told that as a result of the encomienda system and its harsh, repressive practices, the indigenous population of Hispaniola was reduced from 400,000 in 1508, to 26,334 by 1514.
The Spanish East Indies, an overseas territories of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed from Manila in the Spanish Philippines including, besides the Philippines, the Marianas Islands; the Caroline Islands; Palau; Guam; parts of Formosa (now Taiwan); and Sulawesi and the Moluccas in Indonesia.
The earliest European expedition to the Philippines in our historical record was led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the service of the King of Spain in 1521.
The next day, on March 13th, which was Easter Sunday of the year 1521, Magellan claimed possession of these lands for the King of Spain on what is believed to now be the island of Limasawa in southern Leyte.
Magellan and fourteen of his men died shortly thereafter in the Battle of Mactan in Cebu.
After Magellan’s voyage, five expeditions were sent to the islands.
Cebu City is the oldest city in the Philippines, as it was said to have been the first Spanish settlement and first capital city.
It is important to note that there was a star fort located in Cebu, called the Fort San Pedro, said to have been built by the Spanish starting in 1565.
In 1532, the Spanish Conquest of Peru is said to have started with the Battle of Cajamarca, a city in Northern Peru.
I am really curious about how the Spanish Conquest of Peru was supposed to have happened.
Cajamarca sits at 8,900 feet in elevation, or 2,750 meters.
It is generally agreed that altitude sickness typically tends to start occurring at 8,000 feet. Characterized by headache, nausea, shortness of breath and vomiting.
I went to Cusco, Peru, in 2018, and was hit with altitude sickness on the second full-day I was there.
I was absolutely miserable and not really functional.
I had difficulty breathing, and was nauseous.
Money brought to spend on memories instead got spent on portable oxygen bottles and altitude sickness medicine.
I didn’t start feeling much better until we went down in altitude several days later.
Yet, somehow Pizarro and his 128 men marched to Cajamarca from the coast of modern-day Peru, in unfamiliar terrain at high altitudes, and managed to kill thousands of Incas and capture the Inca Emperor Atahualpa?
I am having a hard time buying what they are telling us!
In 1540, Pope Paul III had issued a papal bull forming the Jesuit Order, under the leadership of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Basque nobleman from the Pyrenees in Northern Spain.
The Jesuit Order included a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment.
The Jesuits worked mostly in educational, cultural & research pursuits…at least that is what we are told.
In 1542, explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed in San Diego Bay on behalf of the Spanish Empire, and we are told became the first European to set foot in California, exploring the California coast starting 1542.
In 1543, Ruy Lopez de Villalobos named the islands of Leyte and Samar “Las Islas Filipinas,” after Phillip of Austria, heir-apparent to the throne of Spain, who became King Phillip II in 1556.
Manila is the capital of the Philippines, and the most densely populated city in the world within its boundaries.
Manila, alongside Mexico City and Madrid, is considered one of the world’s original global cities, due to Manila’s historic commercial networks connecting Asia with the Americas.
The historic walled city part of Manila is called the Intramuros, said to have been established by the Spaniards in the late 1500s.
Apparently the Intramuros is a star fort.
The first University in Manila, Universidad de San Ignacio, was said to have been established in the Intramuros by the Jesuits in 1590.
With regards to the efforts to establish one universal, hierarchical, organized religion, the main Catholic missionaries, besides the Franciscans, were the Jesuits, Benedictines, and Dominicans, and most likely involved in many activities of cultural obfuscation and obliteration, some known, and many more not known.
During the same time period that the Farnese Pope Paul III was establishing the Jesuits by Papal Bull in 1540 and sending them on their not-so-merry way, in “Merry Olde England” King Henry VIII disbanded the approximately 850 monasteries, convents and friaries in England during the “Dissolution of the Monasteries” between 1536 and 1541, at the end of which none were left.
Their income was taken and assets disposed of, and in many cases, like that of Glastonbury Abbey, the buildings on the property were left in ruins.
Monasteries were formerly the repositories of local genealogical records, and from then on, the College of Arms mentioned in Part One of this blog was responsible for the recording and maintenance of genealogical records.
With regards to evidence for the creation of a new nobility taking place during King Henry VIII’s reign, it was said that the College of Arms “…at no time since its establishment, was the college in higher estimation, nor in fuller employment, than in this reign.”
In 1530, King Henry VIII conferred the duty of “heraldic visitation” on the College, that of tours of inspection between 1530 and 1688 around England, Wales, and Ireland to register and regulate the Coats of Arms of Nobility, gentry and boroughs, and to record pedigrees.
Also, the Court of Wards and Liveries was established starting in 1540 during the reign of King Henry VIII by two Acts of Parliament – the Court of Wards Act of 1540 and the Wards and Liveries Act of 1541.
It was established around the issues of practical matters relating to the Crown’s right of wardship and livery of young orphaned heirs where their father had been a Tenant-in-Chief of the Crown, including having rights over the deceased’s estate, including income and land, so this special court also administered a system of levying and collecting feudal dues.
Does this mean that there were so many orphaned heirs that they had to establish a special court to handle them?!
I find this information about the “Court of Wards and Liveries” very intriguing, with the Crown taking over the estates and rights of orphaned heirs and would love to know more about what was going on here that is not found in the historical record – who were they and how were they orphaned, and why would this be important?
With regards to religion, the Protestant Reformation, a major movement in 16th-century western Europe that challenged the Catholic Church and Papal Authority, had gotten underway for all intents and purposes in 1517 when Martin Luther published his “Ninety-Five Theses.”e
King Henry VIII, perhaps most famous in history for his six wives, started the English Reformation when he became the head of the Church of England on November 3rd of 1534, after Parliament passed “Acts of Supremacy,” establishing the English monarch as head of the Church of England.
His schism with the Catholic Church started when the Pope refused Henry’s wish to get an annulment from his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, in order to marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn, which he was bound and determined to do.
So King Henry VIII assumed supremacy over religious matters over the Pope in 1533, and he was able to marry Anne Boleyn after English clergy judged his first marriage invalid.
The history of the Great Britain is filled with bloody conflicts between the Protestants and Catholics, starting with the Catholic Queen Mary, the daughter of Henry and Catherine, who was also known as “Bloody Mary,” for her persecution and killing of Protestants for heresy in a brief effort to restore Catholicism to England before her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth I, returned it to Protestantism and in turn persecuted Catholics who were viewed as “traitors.”
This is some historical background to illustrate what we are told was going on in England during the 1500s, and I will delve further into the roles played by religion, the creation of a new nobility, corporatization and colonization in the founding of English colonies in the New World according to what we are told.
In 1606, King James I & VI issued Royal Charters for what became known as the Virginia Company and the Virginia Company of Plymouth, with the objective of raising funds from investors in order to colonize the eastern coast of America.
The Virginia Company was responsible for colonizing the east coast between the latitudes of 34-degrees N or 41-degrees N, and the Plymouth Company between the latitudes of 38-degrees N and 45-degrees N.
This graphic breaks-down the types of colonies after a royal charter has been granted.
The Virginia Company established its first settlement of James Fort in Jamestown in May of 1607.
Jamestown was considered the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, and served as the capital of the Virginia Colony from 1616 until 1699, at which time it was abandoned when the capital was moved to nearby Williamsburg.
The Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, established the Popham Colony near the mouth of the Kennebec River in present-day Phippsburg, Maine in 1607, a few months after the establishment of Jamestown.
The Popham Colony, however, was short-lived, only lasting 14-months before being abandoned due to multiple problems, from lack of funding, to lack of surviving colonists.
Fort St. George was said to have been built there during that time.
The Council for New England was established by a Royal Charter from King James I and VI as an English joint-stock company in order to to found colonial settlements between 1620 and 1635.
The Council for New England Charter provided for the establishment of colonies on land between 34-degrees N and 44-degrees N, becoming the Plymouth Colony, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the New Haven Colony, and the Province of Maine and to be managed by landed gentry.
The Council for New England was largely the creation of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, a military commander and Governor of the Port of Plymouth in England who was called the “Father of English Colonization in North America,” and a member & beneficiary of the the Council.
Gorges first became involved in colonization efforts in 1607, when he became a shareholder in Plymouth Company, and helped to establish the short-lived Popham Colony.
He later received a land-patent in 1622 from the Council of New England for the Province of Maine, and was influential in the early settlement of Maine.
Another member and beneficiary of the Council of New England was William Alexander, the 1st Earl of Stirling.
The Earl of Stirling was a title in the Scottish Peerage that was created by King Charles I on June 14th of 1633 for William Alexander, 1st Viscount of Stirling.
William Alexander had been granted a Royal Charter by King James I & VI in 1621, which appointed him Mayor of a large territory in Nova Scotia , which was enlarged into a lordship and barony of modern-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and parts of the northern United States.
The Baronetage of Nova Scotia was formed in 1625 by King James as a means to settle the “plantation” of Nova Scotia by creating 100 baronets who in turn would support six colonists for two-years for a certain amount of money, and pay William Alexander a certain amount as the charter holder.
This region was contested with the French, and was returned to France by Treaty in 1632.
Though the region was lost to Great Britain for awhile, William Alexander’s settlement in Nova Scotia at Charles Fort, later Port Royal, provided the basis for Scottish claims to Nova Scotia.
So for an example from New England of how this set-up with the Council for New England worked, the Elizabeth Islands, a small chain of islands off the southern coast of Cape Cod, were formally laid claim to and settled by colonizers in the name of the British Crown in 1641, and named for Queen Elizabeth I.
That same year, in 1641, Thomas Mayhew the Elder of Watertown, Massachusetts bought the Elizabeth Islands – along with Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket – from the Earl of Stirling, William Alexander, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges.
All of the Elizabeth Islands today, with the exception of Cuttyhunk and Penikese, are privately-owned by the Forbes family, a wealthy American family of Scottish descent long prominent in Boston.
The Forbes family’s original fortune came largely from trading opium and tea between North America and China in the 19th-century.
The first permanent colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, which at its height occupied most of the southeastern portion of Massachusetts.
The people known as Pilgrims and events surrounding the founding of the Plymouth Colony are celebrated every year as Thanksgiving in the United States.
The story that we are told in our historical narrative is that the Pilgrims were Puritan Separatists who came to the New World so they could worship according to their own beliefs without persecution.
Puritans were English Protestants who wanted to “purify” the Church of England of remaining Roman Catholic practices, as it had not fully-reformed, and was not Protestant “enough.”
The Puritan Congregation that settled the Plymouth Colony had obtained a land patent from the Virginia Company of Plymouth in June of 1619, and they sought to finance their venture through a group of businessmen known as the Merchant Adventurers, who viewed the new colony as a way to make a profit.
Officially known as the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, it had been founded in the City of London in the early 15th-century, and its main export was cloth, especially undyed broadcloth in exchange for a large range of foreign goods.
Funding obtained from the Merchant Adventurers paid for provisions and passage of members of the Congregation on the Mayflower living in England, and on the Speedwell for those living in the Netherlands, incurring a debt which needed to be repaid.
Important to note that the main source of income for the Plymouth Colony was the fur trade.
The Merchant Adventurers had also recruited a group of people known as “The Strangers” to assist the Pilgrim colonists, known as “Saints” as needed, like merchants, skilled labor, indentured servants, and several young orphans.
One of the “Strangers” was Myles Standish, the Military leader of the Plymouth Colony, and was officially designated as the captain of the colony’s militia in February of 1621, shortly after the Mayflower arrived in December of 1620.
Standish led several exploratory expeditions of Cape Cod, as well as military raids on “Indian Villages.”
Standish was credited with the design of the defensive lay-out of the Pilgrims first settlement, known as the Plymouth Fort.
The Pequot War of 1637 was the first major war in New England, and originated in 1632 with a dispute between Dutch fur traders and Plymouth officials over control of the Connecticut River Valley, with representatives of the Dutch East India Company and the Plymouth Colony claiming they had deeds showing they had rightfully purchased the land from the indigenous Pequots.
This led to a rush of English settlers to the area to beat the Dutch to it, and this led to retaliation by the Pequots and the initiation of hostilities between 1636 and 1638, and eliminated the Pequots as a viable political entity.
The other major conflict between colonists and the indigenous people of the region, was King Philip’s War, the fighting during which took place between 1675 and 1676.
Metacomet, also known as King Philip, was the younger son of the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit.
Massasoit had maintained a long-standing alliance with the colonists.
After Metacomet became sachem in 1662 shortly after his father’s death, he forsook the alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists that had been made by his father because of repeated violations by the colonists, and he led a coalition of tribes native to the region known as New England, including the Narragansetts, against the colonists starting in 1675.
By the end of the war, the Wampanoag and their Narragansett allies were almost completely destroyed, and King Philip was killed in August of 1676.
The King Philip’s War was said to have officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Casco in 1678 in the most northern part of New England, between the Wabanaki Confederacy and the English Settlers.
There are no existing copies of the treaty or its proceedings, however, so historians use a summary of clergyman and historian Jeremiah Belknap in his 1784 “History of New Hampshire.”
The Wabanaki Confederacy consisted of the four principal Algonquin nations of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot of present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Newfoundland in Canada, and present-day Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire in the United States.
The Plymouth Colony was ultimately merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691, and along with other territories, formed the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Two noteworthy asides before I move on from the Plymouth Colony.
First, Plymouth Rock.
This is the Plymouth Rock Monument in Plymouth.
The current classical monument housing was said to have been designed in 1921 by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White.
There’s a whole long back-story to Plymouth Rock itself, including there was no record from the pilgrim fathers themselves about landing on a particular rock; attention was first brought to the rock that became Plymouth Rock in 1741 when plans were being made by the residents to build a wharf that would bury it, and an elderly man came forward and said that was the “one” based on what he had been told by his father who had been there when the Pilgrims landed; that the rock had been moved and split and all kinds of stuff; and that the current Plymouth Rock is estimated to weigh ten tons.
The other is the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on the northern end of Cape Cod.
It was said to have been built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor.
It is a bell-tower, and the tallest, all-granite structure in the United States, and said to have been modelled after the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy, which is said to have been designed in 1309.
Another important figure during this time-period of the British colonization of North America was John Winthrop.
John Winthrop was a key figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and I did extensive research about him when I found him representing the State of Massachusetts in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
John Winthrop was born in January of either 1587 or 1588 in Suffolk, England, to a prosperous, land-owning family.
The Winthrop family was granted Groton Manor after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, as the Lord of the Manor had previously been the Abbot of the Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, and John’s parents moved in when he was young.
In 1613, Winthrop’s father transferred the family holdings in Groton to him, and he became Lord of the Manor at Groton, the landholder of a rural estate, enjoying manorial rights.
The Winthrop Coat of Arms was confirmed to John’s uncle by the College of Arms in 1592.
Our historical narrative tells us the religious atmosphere for Puritans to started to change in England in the mid-to-late 1620s, after King Charles I ascended to the throne in 1625, and had married a Roman Catholic.
The atmosphere of intolerance towards Puritans and this state-of-affairs led more Puritan leaders to consider emigration to the New World as means to escape persecution.
In 1629, a royal charter, which included the authority to make and use a seal, from King Charles I was received by Puritan investors known as the “Massachusetts Bay Company.”
The Royal Charter established the legal basis for the new Massachusetts Bay Colony for the governance of a land grant of territory between what became known as the Charles River in eastern Massachusetts and the Merrimack River, which starts in New Hampshire and flows southward into Massachusetts.
Puritan John Endecott led a small group of settlers to the area around this time to prepare the way for a larger migration, and he became the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1629 to 1630, and served as governor several more times over the years, for a total of sixteen years all together.
The exact connection by which John Winthrop got involved with the Massachusetts Bay Company is not known, but he had connections with individuals associated with the company.
Also in 1629, King Charles I dissolved Parliament, beginning a historical period known as “11 years of rule” without Parliament.
This worried Massachusetts Bay Company principal investors, and John Winthrop as well.
The Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company proposed the company reorganize and transport its charter and governance to the colony, and as the months went on, John Winthrop became more involved with the company, and a major supporter of emigration there.
John Winthrop was a signatory on the Cambridge Agreement, which was signed on August 29th of 1629 by company shareholders.
Under its terms, those who wanted to emigrate to the New World could purchase shares from those shareholders who didn’t want to leave home.
The Cambridge Agreement also set forth that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be under local control, and not governed by a London-based corporate board.
The company shareholders met in August of 1629 to enact the agreement.
At this time, John Winthrop was chosen as the new Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and, along with other company officials, set about making all the necessary arrangements for the venture of settling in the New World.
John Winthrop was on one of four ships of the transport fleet that left the Isle of Wight on April 8th of 1630.
All together, there were eleven ships that carried roughly 700 emigrants to the new colony.
John Winthrop, with the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in hand, and the new colonists arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in June of 1630, and were welcomed by John Endecott.
We are told that in its early months, the new colony struggled, losing around 200 people to various diseases.
Winthrop worked alongside the laborers and servants in the work of the colony, setting an example for the other colonists to do all the work that needed to be done on the “plantation.”
Interesting to see the word “plantation” used so much even from the very beginnings of the New World.
In the history of colonialism, plantation was a form of colonization where settlers would establish a permanent or semi-permanent settlement in a new region.
Looks like the colonizers were literally “planting” themselves in a new place.
Not only were settlements and settlers being planted in a new region from somewhere else, this plantation system of the colonizers quickly laid the foundation for slavery on large farms owned by “planters” where cash crop goods were produced.
Winthrop spent a lot of time writing, including his “The History of New England: 1630 – 1649,” also known as “The Journal of John Winthrop,” which was apparently not published until 1790, and has been edited and published three times since then.
Winthrop’s Journal is considered to be the central source of information for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s.
For the Puritans leaving England for the New World because of religious intolerance, completely uprooting their lives and venturing into the unknown for religious freedom…they were remarkably intolerant of people with other religious beliefs, including those within their own community.
The Antinomian Controversy significantly divided the Massachusetts Bay Colony from October of 1636 to March of 1638.
It pitted most of the Colony’s ministers and magistrates against some of the adherents of the Free Grace theology of Puritan Minister John Cotton, and revolved around a theological debate concerning Cotton’s “Covenant of Grace,” which taught that following religious laws was not required for salvation, and the “Covenant of Works” of other Puritans, including John Winthrop, which taught that by doing good works and obeying the law, a person earns and merits salvation.
The outcome was that the leading advocates of Antinomianism, Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and their supporters were disarmed, dismissed, disenfranchised, or banished in this New World.
After her banishment, Anne Hutchison and her supporters established the settlement of Portsmouth in 1638 in what became known as Rhode Island, with encouragement from the Providence Plantations founder, fellow-banishee from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Roger Williams, in what became known as the Colony of Rhode Island and Plymouth Plantations.
Williams also established the first Baptist church in America in Providence.
It is interesting to note that in-between the founding of the Plymouth Colony in 1620 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, what was described as Sir Francis Bacon’s incomplete utopian novel of “New Atlantis” was first published 1626, after his death in April of that same year.
“New Atlantis” was tucked in the back of a much longer work attributed to him about natural history called “Sylva Sylvarum” that was recorded in the Stationers’ Register on July 4th of 1626.
The Stationers’ Register was established via Royal Charter in 1557 as a record book to regulate the professions of the publishing industry and an early form of copyright law. The company’s charter gave it the right to seize illicit editions and bar the publication of unlicensed books.
It is considered a crucial resource for the literature of the English literature of the 16th and 17th-centuries, containing “factual data” and “hard data” that is found nowhere else.
Hmmm.
At any rate, “New Atlantis” was said to portray a future vision of human discovery and knowledge, and the novel depicts an enlightened utopian land where qualities like generosity, high moral character, and honesty were commonly held by the inhabitants of a mythical island he called “Bensalem.”
There was a state-sponsored scientific institution on Bensalem called “Salomon’s House,” said to envision in the book the modern research university in applied and pure sciences.
I really think “New Atlantis” was actually describing an enlightened, advanced civilization, known also as Atlantis, that existed in our relatively recent past and not one in our future….
Another method by which the original civilization’s true history was obscured was by way of historical place name changes.
Here are several examples, of which there are many more, of this practice.
The following were all empires unified within the ancient advanced civilization, with its roots going back in the far distant past to the time of Mu, also known Lemuria.
Now I am going to skip around bring forward other examples showing how ancient countries were subjugated, and controlled, through the processes of western colonialism.
One such is example is the Kingdom of Kandy was said to have been founded in Ceylon in 1469.
Known as Ceylon since ancient times, it has been known as the island country of Sri Lanka since 1972.
In 1592, Kandy became the capital city of the last remaining independent kingdom in Ceylon after the coast regions had been conquered by the Portuguese.
From that time, the Kingdom of Kandy kept the Portuguese and Dutch East India Company at bay, but succumbed finally to British colonial rule when the kingdom was absorbed into the British Empire as a protectorate via the Kandyan Convention of 1815, an agreement signed between the British and members of the King’s court which ceded the kingdom’s territory to British rule, and the last king was imprisoned.
At this time, Ceylon became British Protectorate until its independence in 1948.
Barbaria was the name given to a vast region stretching across Northern Africa, to the Canary Islands, also known as the Barbary Coast and the Maghreb.
The people who live in that part of northern Africa became known as Berbers instead of Barbars.
What was the historical Tartarian Empire included present-day Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, and other modern Central Asian countries…
…and a large chunk of Tartaria became known as Manchuria in northeast Asia in the mid-1800s.
Persia historically was part of the vast Persian Empire, which in more ancient times, as we are told, included all of the following present-day countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.
On the Nowruz, or New Year, of 1935, the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence.
This also changed the usage of the country’s national identity from Persian to Iranian.
The Kingdom, or Realm, of the Morea was the official name of the Peloponnese Peninsula of southern Greece until the 19th-century.
I just now realized that the image of the lion on the flag of the Kingdom of the Morea in southern Greece was very similar to the image of the lion on the flag of the Kingdom of Kandy in the same as the flag of the former Kingdom of Kandy in historical Ceylon.
The powers that used-to-be didn’t rewrite history completely from scratch – they rewrote the historical narrative to fit their agenda and we have been immersed in learning their version of history from cradle to grave.
More about how they accomplished this in the third-part of this post.
Maps, Globes & the Centuries of Exploration
In the third, and last, part of this series, I will be taking a close look at how maps, globes and the sea voyages of the “Age of Discovery” tie into the creation of the New World from the Old World.
The subject matter I am going to bring forward in this post is largely about, but not limited to, “The Age of Discovery,” described as the period of European history in which extensive overseas exploration occurred from the beginning of the 1400’s to the middle of the 1600’s.
Overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.
I will also be looking at the various scientific expeditions of the 1800s.
I think it is important to begin this part with some information about how concepts of space and time are viewed in the present-day versus how they were viewed in the past.
The study of geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding the Earth’s shape, orientation in space, and gravitational field.
A geographic coordinate system enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters and symbols.
The coordinates are chosen so that one of the numbers represents a vertical position, and the horizontal position, from the East-West lines of longitude.
We are told that in cartography, the science of map-making, a map projection is the way of flattening the globe’s surface into a plane in order to make it into a map, which requires a systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations from the surface of the globe into locations on a plane.
This is a 1482 engraving by Johannes Schnitzer of the “Ecumene,” an ancient Greek word for the inhabited world, and used in cartography to describe a type of world map used in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
He was said to have constructed it from the coordinates in Claudius Ptolemy’s “Geography,” an atlas, and treatise of geography, from 150 AD said to compile the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire, and a revision of the now-lost atlas of Marinus of Tyre, a Phoenician cartographer and mathematician who was said to have founded mathematical geography, and who introduced improvements to the construction of maps and developed a system of nautical charts.
Longitude fixes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a North-South line of latitude called the Prime Meridian, given as an angular measurement that ranges from 0-degrees at the Prime Meridian to +180-degrees westward and -180-degrees eastward.
In 1851, Sir George Airy established the new prime meridian of the Earth, a geographical reference line at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in London, and by 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps.
Previous to that, the great pyramid of Giza, located at the exact center of the Earth’s landmass, was the Prime Meridian.
Carl Munck deciphers a shared mathematical code in his book “The Code,” related to the Great Pyramid, in the dimensions of the architecture of sacred sites all over the Earth, one which encodes longitude & latitude of each that cross-reference other sites.
He shows that this pyramid code is clearly sophisticated and intentional, and perfectly aligned over long-distances.
In October of 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, attended by twenty-five countries, in order to determine the Prime Meridian for international use.
Twenty-two of the twenty-five countries in attendance voted to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich as the zero-reference line.
With regards to maps, it is important to note that in earlier maps, ley-lines were depicted.
The Catalan Atlas of the Majorcan Cartographic School is considered the most important map of the Medieval period in the Catalan language, dated to 1375.
I encountered another old map depicting ley-lines when I was researching for information on Fernando de Noronha, an island group just off the coast of Brazil.
The Cantino Planisphere was said to have been completed by an anonymous Portuguese cartographer some time before 1502.
A planisphere is defined as a map formed by the projection of a sphere or part of a sphere on a plane.
It would seem that the Earth’s grid-lines started to disappear from maps in the 1500s, as Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer, cartographer and cosmographer…
…published a world map in 1569 that is considered to be the first where sailing courses on the sphere were mapped to the plane map, allowing for a “correction of the chart to be more useful for sailors.”
Here is a close-up section of the 1569 map showing the depiction of straight ley-lines in the seas, but not on land and sea as were present on the flat projections of the Cantino Planisphere and the Catalan Atlas.
Not only that, Mercator was also a globe-maker, like this one from 1541.
Shortly thereafter, in May of 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,” offering mathematical arguments for the heliocentric, or sun-centered universe, and denying the geocentric model of the Earth-centered universe of Ptolemy, which the heliocentric model superceded, meaning that while once widely-accepted, current science considered the geocentric model inadequate.
By the end of May of that same year, Copernicus was dead.
This is the cover of Mercator’s 1578 publication of “Tabulae Geographicae,” along with the globe, and Ptolemy said to depicted on the left, and Marinus of Tyre on the right.
Notice the difference between the lines on the globe at the top of the engraving, and the globe at the bottom, and while he is pointing down to the globe at the bottom…
…and Ptolemy is holding up a geometric shape that looks like the lines on the globe at the top on the left, which looks remarkably like the shape the sacred hoops formed in the Native American Hoop Dance on the right.
The Erdapfel, which translates literally from the German as “Earth apple,” but means “potato” in German, was said to be a terrestrial globe produced by Martin Behaim, a German textile merchant and cartographer, between 1490 and 1492.
This engraving of him was said to have been done in 1886.
We are told the Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe.
It is a laminated linen ball, constructed in two-halves, reinforced with wood…
…and overlaid by a map painted by Georg Glockendon, pasted on a layer of parchment around the globe.
The German-English geographer and cartographer, Ernst Georg Ravenstein, who was born in Germany in 1834, but spent most of his adult life in England, wrote a book about Martin Behaim and his Erdapfel in 1908, and, as we shall see, Mr. Ravenstein’s name will come up again in more than one reference.
Only 13-years after Mercator was said to have published his world map in 1569, the linear Gregorian Calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in October of 1582, for the given reason of correcting the Julian calendar on stopping the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes, and included the addition of leap years.
It took 300 years to implement the calendar in the west, and nowadays used in non-western countries for civil purposes.
The Mayan calendar was involved with the harmonization and synchronization of Human Beings and the development of Human Consciousness with natural cycles of time.
The Mayan calendar consisted of several cycles, or counts, of different lengths.
The 260-day count, or Tzolkin, was combined with a 365-day solar year known as the Haab’, to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab’, called the Calendar Round, still in use today by many Mayan groups in the highlands of Guatemala.
The Tzolkin calendar combines twenty day-names and symbols, with thirteen day numbers, which represent different-sounding tones, to produce 260 unique days.
The Mayan Long Count calendar was used to track longer periods of time.
The ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with a 365-day-year, with three seasons of 120-days each, and 5-6 epagomenal days, also known as an intercalary month, transitional days that were treated as outside of the year proper to make the calendar follow the seasons or moon phases in common years and leap years.
Now on to the “Age of Discovery” in the “Centuries of Exploration.”
The primary initiator of the earliest time period of maritime exploration in our historical narrative, known as “The Age of Discovery, was Prince Henry the Navigator, who was said to have been born in 1394.
The fourth child of the Portuguese King John I, he was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
The Portuguese Empire was composed of the overseas colonies and territories government by Portugal, existing from 1415 with the capture of the port of Ceuta, on the Moroccan-side of the Strait of Gibraltar…
…to the handover of Portuguese Macau to China in 1999, the last remaining dependent state in China and the final vestige of European colonialism in the region, we are told, after 442-years of Portuguese rule.
Macau is designated as an autonomous region on the south coast of China, across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong…
…where there is Moorish-looking architecture in Macau on the left that looks like what is found in Madrid, Spain, on the right.
We are told Prince Henry the Navigator took the lead role in promoting and financing Portuguese maritime exploration until his death in 1460.
He was said to have been responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents through the systematic exploration of western Africa, the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the search for new routes.
One more thing about Prince Henry.
Apparently no one used the nickname “the Navigator” during his lifetime, or in the following three centuries.
We are told the term was coined by two 19th-century German historians – Heinrich Schaefer and Gustave de Veer – and that the nickname was popularized by two British authors in the titles of their biographies of Prince Henry.
One was by Richard Henry Major in 1868…
…and the other was by Raymond Beazley in 1895.
Let’s see what else comes up like this.
The next Portuguese explorer to come on the scene was Bartolomeu Dias, a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household.
We are told he sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on.
He was also said to be the first European during the “Age of Discovery” to anchor at what is present-day South Africa.
Not only did I find the German-English geographer and cartographer, Ernst Georg Ravenstein, come up in association with a biography of Bartolomeu Dias…
…Ravenstein also published “A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama” in 1898, the next Portuguese explorer of note, who made it to India in a journey between 1497 and 1499.
Ravenstein was said to have translated what was called the only known copy of a journal believed to have been written on-board ship during Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India.
We are told that Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India was the first link to Europe and Asia by an ocean route.
He was said to have landed in Calicut on May 20th of 1498.
This is said to be a steel engraving from the 1850s of the meeting between the King of Calicut and Vasco da Gama, which apparently didn’t yield the favorable results the Portuguese explorer desired, as it failed to yield the commercial treaty with Calicut that was da Gama’s principal mission.
Regardless of the failure to secure a commercial treaty with the King of Calicut, Vasco da Gama’s voyage to and from India led to the yearly Portuguese India Armadas, fleets of ships organized by the King of Portugal dispatched on an annual basis from Portugal to India…
…and 6-years after da Gama’s initial arrival in 1498, the Portuguese State of India was founded.
Portugal’s unopposed access to the Indian spice trade routes boosted the economy of its empire, and maintained a commercial monopoly on spice commodities for several decades.
The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), a long a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the West Coast of Africa.
Then, 35-years later, the Treaty of Zaragoza was signed, which specified the Antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified by the Treaty of Tordesillas, defining the areas of Spanish and Portuguese influence in Asia.
Pedro Alvares Cabral, a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer, was a contemporary of Vasco da Gama.
He was said to have led a fleet of thirteen ships into western Atlantic Ocean, and made landfall in what we know as Brazil in 1500.
As the new land was in the Portuguese sphere according to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, Cabral claimed it for the Portuguese Crown.
He explored the coast, and realized, we are told, that the large land-mass was most likely a continent, and dispatched a ship to notify the Portuguese King, Manuel I of the new territory.
The land Cabral had claimed for Portugal later became known as Brazil on the continent of South America.
Interestingly, Cabral slipped into obscurity for 300 years, until the 1840s that is, when the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II sponsored research and publications dealing with Cabral’s life and expedition through the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute, which was founded in 1838, and part of the emperor’s plan to foster and strengthen a sense of nationalism among Brazil’s diverse citizenry.
Ferdinand Magellen was a Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition, which started in 1519 and ended in 1522, to the Spanish East Indies, a fleet known as the “Armada de Molucca” to reach the Spice Islands, and said to have resulted in the first circumnavigation of the earth.
As mentioned previously,Magellan was killed in the Philippines in the Battle of Mactan on April 27th of 1521, and a Basque-Spanish explorer by the name of Juan Sebastian de Elcano was said to have completed the expedition after Magellan’s death, from the Moluccas and back to Spain.
I found a biography about Magellan written by an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer named Stefan Zweig, who was born in Vienna in 1881, and died, along with his wife, in Brazil in 1942, of barbituate overdoses, we are told.
Other notable explorers from the first “Age of Discovery” include:
Giovanni da Verrazzano was said to be a Florentine explorer, in the service of the French King Francis I, and being the credited with first European to explore the Atlantic Coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick between 1523 and 1524.
We are told that the book “Verrazano’s Voyage Along the Atlantic Coast of North America, 1524,” was reproduced from an original artifact that was written by Giovanni da Verrazzano himself.
It was published in 1916, with an introduction by Edward Hagaman Hall, a New York State historian who was born in 1858 and died in 1936.
Henry Hudson was said to have been an English navigator and explorer during the early 17th-century, best known for his explorations of parts of the northeastern United States and Canada.
Between 1607 and 1611, he was engaged by various trading companies to sail to the Far North to find another way to Asia, via either the Northeast Passage or Northwest Passage.
In 1609, Henry Hudson was chosen by Dutch East India Company merchants to find an easterly passage to Asia.
His attempts to go in an eastward direction were said to have been blocked by ice in northern Norway, so he decided to go west and find a northerly passage through North America.
His ship, the Half Moon, travelled down the coast from LaHave in Nova Scotia; to Cape Cod; to the Chesapeake Bay; to Delaware Bay; then New York Bay, and up the Hudson River that bears his name.
His voyage was said to have been used to establish Dutch claims to the region, and to the fur trade that prospered there when a trading post was established at Albany in 1614, and with New Amsterdam on Manhattan island becoming the capital of New Netherland in 1625.
Did Henry Hudson happen to have anything thing published about him in the late 19th-century, early 20th-century?
I found this 1909 publication about Henry Hudson by Thomas Allibone Janvier, described as an American story-writer and historian, who was born in 1849 and died in 1913.
The Lewis & Clark Expedition started on August 31, 1803 and lasted until September 23rd of 1806, with a mission to explore and map the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.
We are told their visit to the Pacific Northwest, maps, and proclamations of sovereignty with medals and flags were legal steps needed to claim title to each indigenous nation’s lands under the Doctrine of Discovery, a concept of public international law expounded by the United States Supreme Court in a series of decisions in 1823.
Under it, title to lands lay with the government whose subjects travelled to and occupied a territory whose inhabitants were not subjects of a European Christian monarch.
In other words, the Supreme Court ruled that the Native Americans didn’t own their land.
Chief Justice John Marshall explained and applied the way that colonial powers laid claim to lands belonging to foreign sovereign nations during the Age of Discovery, and Chief Justice Marshall noted, among other things, the 1455 papal bull Romanus Pontifex and the 1493 Inter Cetera bull in the Court’s decisions to implement the Doctrine of Discovery.
Meriwether Lewis had returned from the Lewis & Clark Expedition in 1806; was made Governor of Louisiana Territory in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson; and had made arrangements to publish his Corps of Discovery Journals.
Lewis was initiated into freemasonry between 1796 and 1797, from where he was born and raised in the Virginia Colony, shortly after he joined the United States Army in 1795.
Being Governor of the Louisiana Territory didn’t work too well for Lewis for a variety of reasons, and on September 3rd of 1809, he set out for Washington, DC, to address financial issues that had arisen as a result of denied payments of drafts he had drawn against the War Department when he was governor…and he carried with him his journals for delivery to his publisher.
He decided to go overland to Washington instead of via ship by way of New Orleans, and stayed for the night at a place called Grinder’s Stand, an inn on the historic Natchez Trace, southwest of Nashville, Tennessee.
Gunshots were heard in the early morning hours, and he was said to have been found with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and gut.
His remains were interred here at Grinder’s Stand.
We are told that Thomas Jefferson and some historians generally accepted Lewis’ death as a suicide.
What did he know?
Who would have wanted him silenced?
What happened to his journals?
Did someone nicely get them along to his publisher for him as he had written them?
A new era of scientific maritime exploration also commenced in the 1800s.
in August of 1822, Jules Dumont d’Urville set out on an expedition to collect scientific and strategic information, and sailed to the Falkland Islands; the coasts of Peru and Chile in South America; New Guinea; New Zealand and Australia.
The expedition carried out research in the fields of botany and insects, bringing back thousands of specimens to the Natural History Museum in Paris.
Then, 1826, Dumont d’Urville departed for a three-year voyage to New Zealand; Fiji; the Loyalty Islands; New Guinea; the Solomon Islands, Caroline Islands, and the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia.
In 1837, Dumont d’Urville set out yet again for the South Orkney Islands in the Southern Ocean; the Marquesas Islands; Tasmania; along the coast of Antarctica, at which time he claimed land on January 21st of 1840 for France, considered it his most significant achievement. He named it Adelie Land after his wife Adele.
He then sailed onto New Zealand; the Torres Strait; Reunion Island; and St. Helena island, and returning to France later in 1840.
He was promoted to Rear Admiral upon his return, and he wrote a report of the expedition, which was published between 1841 and 1854 in 24 volumes.
An interesting side-note about Dumont d’Urville’s life was his death – he and his entire family were killed in the first ever rail disaster in France in May of 1842, called the Versailles Rail Accident, in which the train’s locomotive derailed, the wagons rolled, and the coal tender ended up at the front of the train and caught fire. This was said to be a painting of the incident.
The U. S. Exploring Expedition was another exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and the surrounding lands, conducted by the United States between 1838 and 1842.
The expedition was described as of major importance to the growth of science in the United States, and that during the events of its occurrence, armed conflict between Pacific Islanders and the expedition was common, and dozens of natives were killed, as well as a few Americans.
It involved a squadron of four ships, with specialists on each including naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, a taxidermist, and a philologist, which is someone who studies written and oral histories.
It is sometimes referred to as the “U. S. Ex. Ex.” or “Wilkes Expedition,” after the commanding officer, Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes.
The ships of the Wilkes Expedition was said to have departed from Hampton Roads in Virginia for the first stop the Madeira Islands off the coast of Africa on August 18th, 1838.
The routes of the expedition went something like this.
They arrived at and “discovered” Antarctica on January 16th of 1840, just mere days before the completely different expedition of Dumont d’Urville’s claimed land on Antarctica on January 21st of 1840.
The ships travelled together, but did break-off into pairs on occasion to explore different places in the same general location.
Then there were the voyages of the HMS Beagle, originally a gun boat of the British Royal Navy, said to have set off from the Royal Dockland of Woolwich at the River Thames on May 11th of 1820.
The HMS Beagle’s first voyage was between 1826 and 1830, accompanying the larger ship, HMS Adventure, on a hydrologic survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
The second voyage of the HMS Beagle, between 1831 and 1832, was joined by naturalist Charles Darwin, on a second trip to South America, and then around the world.
Charles Darwin kept a diary of his experiences, and rewrote this as a book titled “Journal and Remarks,” becoming published in 1839 as “The Voyage of the Beagle.”
It was in “The Voyage of the Beagle” that Darwin developed his theories of evolution through common descent and natural selection.
The third voyage of the HMS Beagle took place between 1837 and 1843, and was a third surveying voyage to Australia, stopping on the way at Tenerife in the Canary Islands; Salvador on the coast of Brazil in Bahia State; and Cape Town in South Africa.
In 1845, the HMS Beagle was refitted as a Coast Guard watch vessel in Essex, in the navigable waters beyond the Thames Estuary, moored in the middle of the River Roach, until oyster companies and traders petitioned to have it removed in 1851, citing the vessel was obstructing the river and its oyster beds.
The Navy List shows that on May 25th of 1851, the Beagle was renamed “Southend ‘W.V. No. 7′” at Paglesham, and sold in 1870 to be broken-up.
Quite an inglorious ending for such a celebrated ship!
This ends my formal presentation about how the New World was created from the Old World.
There are several ways that I have encountered the information I have presented in this post after 4 1/2-years of extensive research that I have expressed through blogging, and making videos of each blog post, since June of 2018.
For one, I have long interested in hidden history and megaliths, and my own original research started after I found a star tetrahedron by connecting cities in North America that lined-up in lines.
I believe this star tetrahedron is the terminus of the earth’s grid system, and that everything about the advanced ancient civilization was based on sacred geometry, including how all of the physical infrastructure on the earth was laid out.
Once I found the star tetrahedron, I extended the lines out and wrote down the cities that lined up in linear and circular fashion.
In doing the research on these cities and places in alignment with each other, I got an amazing tour of the world of places I had never heard of with remarkable similarities across countries.
Not only that, I started to discover what had taken place here, how it was done, and who was responsible.
I also started my in-depth research work with an awareness of the Moors and the Moorish Paradigm after becoming friends with a Moorish-American man in Oklahoma City in 2013.
This was when I started learning about the Moors. and where I started seeing the ancient civilization in the environment around me.
I have subsequently found through my research the existence of one unified civilization all over the Earth, from ancient times to modern.
There is no place on Earth that this ancient civilization was not.
IThe evidence is all around us, hidden in plain sight. Literally just outside our front doors, in our back yards, in our neighborhoods, especially in our parks, to name a few of many places.
I took these pictures of megalithic stone blocks around the block from where I lived in Oklahoma City.
Lying around everywhere with no special attention drawn to them – just there. Taunting us but not telling us.
And only when you start realizing they are there. Because until you notice them, they just blend in to the landscape.
Another way I encountered this information has been through in-depth timeline research focusing on the years between 1492 and 1942, with 1717 as the midpoint year, and have found much “new” going on in our historical narrative with regards to the “New World” with this focus, as detailed throughout this post.
I also have encountered a lot of hidden history in my research of the people representing states in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol building, like John Winthrop mentioned in this post…
…and I have found it researching places viewers have suggested.
I think negative beings hijacked the timeline by deliberately causing a worldwide cataclysm, known popularly as the mud flood, and superimposing the “New World” timeline over the existing infrastructure of the Old World after digging out enough of it to restart civilization.
We are thoroughly schooled in the new narrative from the moment we are born from every aspect of our existence, so much so that we don’t even see the copious evidence of an ancient advanced worldwide civilization in the environment around us.
Based on what I have found in my research, I think that the players involved in taking down the Old World Order systematically laid the foundation for taking its land, its people, its people, and its wealth, and faked the historical narrative, not completely from scratch, but rewriting history to fit their agenda.
I suspect that at some point, not sure from what point forward, the history we learn is about their story, and what they have fabricated to cover up how things came into existence, i.e. all manner of infrastructure being attributed to “other” builders, and completely tampered with our perception of place, time and space in order to control, misdirect, and misinform us.
In conclusion, I am seeing that the Earth’s people and grid system was deliberately hijacked by dark beings with a negative agenda, who definitely don’t want us to wake up to our true history and who we really are, and that they have worked very hard to keep this from happening!