7 Comments

  1. Shane Brunson on November 10, 2022 at 12:25 pm

    Circleville was “Three Springs”

  2. Robert Messner on November 10, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    Why would Braddock bury the gold to pay his troops in Virginia when his eventual objective (after Ft. Duquesne and Ft. Niagara) was at Crown Point, in the vicinity of Lake Champlain? How was he to pay his troops after that long march? This clip further muddies the waters of the story of Braddock’s lost pay chest.

  3. Shane Brunson on November 10, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    this happen in PA during the attack on fort duquense. Rumor here is he buried the gold to make sure his troops wouldnt run off after being paid.

    And its near rt 40 where is was buried in the middle of the road (braddock) that is, yet Charles lee and other confederates Washington would later battle a few years later was with this army…

    Braddock, Washington, Boone,Gage,Lee and Gates was all at this battle, Lee could had taken the gold.

  4. Smelda Roses on November 10, 2022 at 1:00 pm

    Heard this story as a kid in Fairfax County in the 1960s. I looked in several creek beds in the Annandale and Alexandria boundary streams on Indian Creek and Turkey Run and other smaller side tributaries. Low and behold I found an old box of 3-band musket balls/bullets, union civil war era not revolutionary era munitions. About 80 to 100 bullets, still packed tightly together, even though the box was very much deteriorated. I still have them but never did find the cannons.

  5. Richard Witt on November 10, 2022 at 1:06 pm

    Well we can debate the issue of an ambush, since that historically just doesn’t seem to be the case, but more importantly we all sometimes forget that good ole’ GW survived this debacle, made it home and seemed to do pretty well for himself. It’s not like Centreville wasn’t on his way? $30k in 1755, you could buy a lot of land, position and prestige with that kind of cash!

  6. Havoscar on November 10, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    Treasure Legends of Virginia
    The history of Virginia told through treasure tales about pirates, Indians, Revolutionary War heroes and Civil War raiders. The full text of the famous Beale Treasure cipher is included along with some sixty other legends.http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Legends-Virginia-Charles-Mills-ebook/dp/B004EYSZ46/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1421277723&sr=1-1&keywords=Treasure+Legends+of+Virginia

Leave a Comment