How Olivier Levasseur Won and Lost History's Greatest Treasure

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Olivier Levasseur is definitely the luckiest, unlucky pirate, or the unluckiest, lucky pirate. He did well as a privateer, and then the war ended. He lost his fleet in the biggest hurricane of the century, but got out alive. He managed to acquire a good ship, and then lost it from a sudden hurricane. His new ship was destroyed by the Navy, but he managed to escape. He got forced into a pirate crew, but the Captain who forced him was deposed and he became an officer. Then he got shipwrecked again, and then he was rescued and partook in possible the richest heist of all history... but lost all of his money in another shipwreck. His pirating career was one of the longest in all of history, but he got unlawfully pulled out of his retirement and executed by the local government... simply to prove a point. He designed the most pirate flags out of any pirate, though he's mostly remembered nowadays for this mystical cryptogram, allegedely leading to his buried treasure... to this day, no one has been able to crack it.
The secrets of Olivier Levasseur continue to elude us. So, let's dive into the murky waters of pirate history, and see what pearls we might discover.
Modern sources:
Captain La Buse: The Golden Age of Piracy - Jacques Gasser
Dictionary of Pirate Biography - Baylus Brooks
Pirates in their own words - E.T Fox
Sailing East: West Indian Pirates in Madagascar - Baylus C. Brooks
The Pirate of Cotinga Island(1718) - Geraldo J.S Hostin
The Pirate Wars - Peter Earle
cipherfoundation.org/older-cip...
Period sources:
A new account - William Snelgrave
Jacob de Bucquoy: Pirates of Madagascar at Rio Delagoa - Jacob de Bucquoy, transl. by Baylus C. Brooks
Music credits:
Sacre by Jon Sayles of jsayles.com
DamaMay by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech
Pirate flags by mageillus
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Origins
4:53 The Caribbean
9:22 Bellamy
14:35 Newfoundland
16:41 Brazil
20:08 Guinea
30:46 The Indian Ocean
32:34 Our Lady of the Cape
40:31 Shipwrecked again...
42:43 The Pirate King
46:36 Fall of a chieftain

Пікірлер: 90

@GoldandGunpowder Ай бұрын

Biography on Levasseur's best buddy Taylor coming in two months - July's video will be a bit more contemporarily topical. To keep you occupied until then: Madagascar, its pirates and natives: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8x0eN2enKy6qIk.html The Red Sea Men: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/freBpsh5tc-WnHk.html Henry Every, most famous Red Sea Pirate: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ic6oY5R21MfQpYU.html The Golden Age in a nutshell: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jN2peJSLsbfMqqs.html

@slyandjack6693 22 күн бұрын

could you make an episode on the game skull and bones

@thedictationofallah Ай бұрын

Only true OGs remember that this was an old video but he deleted it because it contained inaccuracies

@defiantvoyage Ай бұрын

And now I can’t wait for the Blackbeard video!

@Mad-Cat_Dan Ай бұрын

"My treasure is yours! Now you just have to go find it! I left everything I own in *One Piece* "

@theoriginaldemiurge Ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment.

@RachDarastric2 Ай бұрын

And it took 340 years for inflation to recover.

@rdooky 26 күн бұрын

To be found soon

@RachDarastric2 Ай бұрын

I think if I saw a ship holding a sword I'd just surrender.

@lc1138 Ай бұрын

I'd probably do the same. Although I'd probably get a look at the reach of her arms.

@RachDarastric2 Ай бұрын

@@lc1138 "OooOOooOoh they're so muscular... Now lets run! I mean sail!"

@adrienjouan1594 Ай бұрын

Hi, I was talking with Geraldo Hostin, an archeologist that was studying the story of La Buse in Brazil. That's s really nice video ! You are probably the only one that speak about La Buse's way to Brazil. But he said some details are wrong or approximative. -When the Brazilian team found canons they found about six finbankers and not only one. -The boat that was hunting la buse was not the one that found him, this one was from Captain du bocage that was first hunted, then hunting him in the bay of Paranagua. -The brigantine that was coming with Louise was probably taken in the coast of Venezuela, are pirates might have made a small tour previously to Brazil then took this boat and came back to Brazil. That's not sure but that's his theory. -He was telling about 6,000 piasters to release Ericeira, and the Bourbon's governor probably didn't ask to pay more. (Though I have seen other sources telling about 2000 piastres too) Thanks for your work, it's really awesome and I learn a lot with you. Morover, as French man, La Buse is my favorite pirate :)

@captainolivierlevasseur5763 Ай бұрын

G'day mate! Thanks for mentioning my research on La Buse, the Pirate of Cotinga Island, which was a breakthrough (the two flags included). More data is coming soon in a form of a book. Best wishes (G.H.).

@GoldandGunpowder Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your work!

@taxesdeathandtrouble.1886 Ай бұрын

For what it’s worth my grandmother was a Levasseur from Ottawa.

@grodfromguate Ай бұрын

Most underrated pirate. Probably my favorite as well

@uptown_rider8078 Ай бұрын

I really like this format, I’m excited to see more Pirate Biography videos!

@matthewseligman5470 Ай бұрын

Levasseur had a lot of Gual to keep persisting at piracy in spite of his misfortunes.

@mageillus Ай бұрын

Rise up from thy sleep lassie, a new Gold and Gunpowder video is here!

@fredericremuzat8557 Ай бұрын

Super vidéo, merci Capt G&G🏴‍☠ Certains pensent qu'au moins une partie de la cargaison de "La Vierge du Cap" fut débarquée quelque part sur la Côte Ouest de l'Ile Bourbon... Le Rêve est toujours vivant!!!

@Mother.Mulberry Ай бұрын

Dude, created a fiction history tour featuring him ❤

@RyderFlo Ай бұрын

One of your best videos to date mate, like a few of the recent ones actually, plus It happens that they also focuses on my favorites GAoP topics of the moment (First Madagascar then La Buse), so I couldn't be more satisfied, Thanks Willem !

@MLGames12 Ай бұрын

I think it would be a awesome idea even thought its off topic, to make a video about the filibuster war in nicaragua

@monkstery Ай бұрын

He has talked about doing an annual video series, each time focusing on pirates separated from the golden age, so it’s possible he’ll cover 19th century filibusters someday especially since they ripped their name from buccaneers

@rogerl.copenhaverjr.9931 Ай бұрын

Actually it would fit in perfectly considering John Henningston (William Walkers Second in Command) was a Pirate, Mercenary and explosives expert??

@MLGames12 Ай бұрын

@@rogerl.copenhaverjr.9931 wow, awesome, man i tried to search about this man, some of the characters who participated in the walker campaign where completely awesome, but i didn't found anything, would you kindly send me something to read about this man?

@rogerl.copenhaverjr.9931 Ай бұрын

0:18

@rogerl.copenhaverjr.9931 Ай бұрын

Ok I got the name of walkers second in command's name wrong😩 try looking up Charles Frederick Henningsen he also fought as a Brigider General in the Confederate army, during the US civil war

@lukelee7967 Ай бұрын

Thank you for shining a bit of light on the 1987 film Walker, it's a really good film.

@user-wi2ns5tf3y Ай бұрын

HE HAS RISEN!

@GrudgeyCable Ай бұрын

Another banger! Was just reading about this guy and then you drop this video. Perfect timing.

@noone4700 Ай бұрын

Excellent video as usual!

@satyajeetnundloll1476 5 күн бұрын

Keep searching and keep on searching. He got you all. What a man.

@thelastbrunneng4355 Ай бұрын

Excellent video as usual! What's the source on Rising Sun defeating Scarborough? Francis Hume was Captain of HMS Scarborough from 1715-1719 but lived to command other ships and died in the 1750s. And Scarborough survived into the 1720s to be rebuilt as a Sixth Rate.

@GoldandGunpowder Ай бұрын

Entry on Moody/Mudie/Mudic/Moudy, William in Dictionary of Pyrate Biographry by Baylus C. Brooks, source listed in the video description.

@CodyHomes Ай бұрын

Heard of him, forgot he existed for a few years, found out here he had a dozen non legal names, and most of what I forgot. Very interesting it is.

@spirospagiatis4731 Ай бұрын

Great job!!! Your videos remind me of those good old documentaries I used to watch as a kid. Next video idea : Edward Low.

@baliorne Ай бұрын

It would be funny if he was just writing random characters on a sheet of paper to practice handwriting or intentionally mislead others into trying to decipher it

@tiptoptechno Ай бұрын

🟩⬆ good!

@RietasB.Murunen Ай бұрын

la buse sea men

@CaptainJess Ай бұрын

52:58 OMG, OLIVER ADMITTED IT!!!

@Mr.Kthehybrid Ай бұрын

My new favorite 👍

@SkallywagSkids Ай бұрын

le one piece..... IS REALLLLLLLL XD love your video man your awesome

@semi-useful5178 Ай бұрын

"Fortune favors the Infamous" -Luthor Harkon, greatest Pirate of Mallus.

@vercing1324 13 күн бұрын

Hello! Your french is great!

@unknowntrooper_2791 Ай бұрын

Must once more praise the video also for its editing. Btw do we know if he had only one eye? Pop history speaks how he had an eyepatch but I have been doubting...

@GoldandGunpowder Ай бұрын

Don't know where it stems from originally. First time I saw it was on Cindy Vallar's blog. No encounter of it in the listed sources

@unknowntrooper_2791 Ай бұрын

Thanks I bet it is as true as his cryptogram... but hard to know really, eye issues were not rare.

@monkstery Ай бұрын

@@unknowntrooper_2791yeah it’s almost just as likely that he did as he didn’t, like if someone portrayed La Buse in media with a wounded eye I wouldn’t fault it really but I also wouldn’t say that he did have one

@user-wi2ns5tf3y Ай бұрын

A face, to the voice

@herobrinesblog Ай бұрын

We MUST force you to see ALL of one piece!

@unknowntrooper_2791 Ай бұрын

This was a wonderful video. Very good content! The quality of resent vids had been superb. I learned a lot of his early years but I wonder what source describe that fate to Hms Scarborough as it does differ from most (compare for example Republic of Pirates)? Edit: I do not have the book but it may be this comes from a deposition included in Dictionary of Pyrate Biography by Baylus C. Brooks based on search of google books (but could not see the full page and the book is a tad too pricey for me). There is however contradicting evidence in many places so it may be Scarborough was not taken after all, but it is possible. The story of the Cabo was very well told here (but Douglas Botting's "Pirates" say that the count was actually expelled for a whole decade but anyway irrelevant little detail). But again great deep research and quality content which is far too rare in YT, unique even. So good use of images and nice reconstructions of event chronology. The narration, which really has never been an issue is also again very nice to follow and I like the occasional memes in these. Looking forward for future vids and I hope there will be a lot of views for the channel. Cheers!

@kalashnikovdevil Ай бұрын

It does come from the Dictionary, it's listed in the sources for the video.

@rickshabusky4553 Ай бұрын

You should do a video on Wokou next

@m.streicher8286 Ай бұрын

An hour from G&G 😅

@christiantava442 Ай бұрын

Is that GTA 4 menu music at 22:00?

@levitatingoctahedron922 Ай бұрын

11:55 same thing applies to society as a whole

@deantaefields5911 Ай бұрын

You should make a historical analysis of One Eyed Willy next.

@GoldandGunpowder Ай бұрын

already have, it's available as exclusive content on my OnlyFans

@spikerzombie 26 күн бұрын

After watching the most recent JRE I wonder why pirates want gold so bad and how there plundering over it spread gold out across the globe and humanity over time

@nadiawirth1901 26 күн бұрын

L emplacement du tresor de labuse a ete localise par cyrille lougnon il y a une dizaine d annees. Cette decouverte est relatee dans l ouvrage historique intitule "olivier levasseur dit labuse. Piraterie et contrebande sur la route des indes au 18eme siecle. Je vous le recommande.

@user-ew2mk7ps3k Ай бұрын

I feel like I have already saw this

@lc1138 Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this whole story ! I'm confused : wasn't there some Levasseur as governor of Tortuga before Bertrand d'Ogeron ? Some kind of mad governor in a fort with a suspended cage ?

@monkstery Ай бұрын

That would be Jean Levasseur

@lc1138 Ай бұрын

@@monkstery thank you !

@HanSolo__ Ай бұрын

How does the term Corsair fit the era?

@GoldandGunpowder Ай бұрын

franco-spanish term for privateer and general term for mediterranean pirates/privateers

@HanSolo__ Ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder Thank you.

@rickshabusky4553 Ай бұрын

THE ONE PIECE IS REAL

@JS443 Ай бұрын

Should be made a good movie rivaling the Pirates of the Caribbean

@zelyts6136 Ай бұрын

Le WHAT

@biancahuertas7038 23 күн бұрын

PLEASE DO WILLIAM MOODY 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@bookofroger Ай бұрын

No ad? 😔

@peterang78 Ай бұрын

The original Gol D. Roger.

@fransuke12 6 күн бұрын

The Real Gol D. Roger

@_pp7473 Ай бұрын

history's bravest frenchman

@HanSolo__ Ай бұрын

You would not want to meet a gendarme or any soldier of the modern (I can assure you) or historical French army. France is the record holder for the highest number of won wars.

@_pp7473 Ай бұрын

@@HanSolo__ i wouldn't want to meet them because they're not cool pirates

@lc1138 Ай бұрын

@@_pp7473that's what I told them when I last was controlled on the road. Adjudant didn't like my humor.

@HanSolo__ Ай бұрын

@@_pp7473 When I say "meet", I don't mean meeting and chatting.

@blundermon Ай бұрын

The French have perhaps the proudest military history in Europe. I do remember freedom fries bro. Time to let that meme die at least on history channels