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The Lost Colony of the Templars: Verrazano's Secret Mission to America

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This fascinating work reveals the fact that Templar baptisteries started with the discovery of Jerusalem's secrets. They spread to Ireland, Portugal, Scotland and France and finally to America. Before Columbus. This book proves that the so-called Viking Tower could not have been built by anyone but an initiate who understood the advanced astronomy known to the Templar knights. This is groundbreaking and will forever change the debate over the Tower's origins.

For those interested in exploring the possibility of Templar Knights visiting North America during medieval times, this is an excellent starting point. I used it as a resource when writing my own novel covering this subject matter. Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower

I note that another reviewer incorrectly portrays the conclusions of the Chronognostic Research Foundation following a recent archeological dig at the Newport Tower. Rather than concluding the Tower is of Colonial origin, as the reviewer states, the Foundation instead concluded: "The Newport Tower could have been built as late as 1457 - but probably not much later." This finding is consistent with Mr. Sora's premise.

Usually, books that have either "Templar" or "Secret" in their titles tend to be poorly-reasoned rantings by fringe conspiracy types. Actually, TLCotT wasn't too bad. Most of the book covers the fairly familiar ground of the history of the Templar Order and the issue of pre-Columbian European contact with the North America. The proclaimed topic of the book, "Verrazano's secret mission to America" to find a lost colony of fleeing Templars as almost an afterthought and, ultimately, a product of conjecture.

As far as the writing, the book seems to lack in organization. I've never heard of Destiny Books. I suspect that they are a small vanity press and did not supply the author with a professional editor.

Overall, the book is o.k. There was very little here that I haven't heard or seen elsewhere. Still, I suppose that if you are new to the subject of the Templars of early European arrivals in North America, then this book is useful as a primer.

Not bad but not recommended.

I hope to see this book used as a theme in movie - like "National Treasure"!

In November, 2006, archaeologists hired by Chronognostics completed still another excavation of the Newport Tower. They came to the same conclusion as the excavation in 1951 by William Godfrey; i.e. it was built in 1650-1670, probably by Benedict Arnold's grandfather who owned it and claimed it in his will. So much of the book focuses on this that it is suspect in my mind. Additionally, the factual evidence on Sinclair having been in Rhode Island is meager, indeed. Dr. Diane Holloway