4musketeers Cardinal Geocoin

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Owner:
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Released:
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Origin:
New York, United States
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In NO BLUFFING!

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All for One, One for All.
My goal is to move from cache to cache all over Europe for a year,
colecting images along the way if possible.
 

About This Item

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Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan
(c. 1611 – 25 June 1673) born in Lupiac, southwestern France.

D'Artagnan found a way to enter into the Musketeers in 1632. He had a career in espionage for Cardinal Mazarin, in the years after the first Fronde. Due to d'Artagnan's faithful service during this period, Louis XIV entrusted him with many secret and delicate situations that required complete discretion. In 1652 d'Artagnan was promoted to lieutenant in the Gardes Francaises, then to captain in 1655. In 1658, he became a second lieutenant in the newly reformed Musketeers.
In 1667, d'Artagnan was promoted to captain-lieutenant of the Musketeers, the effective commander, as the nominal captain was the King. As befitted his rank and position, he could be identified by his striking burgundy, white and black livery—the colours of the commanding officer of the Musketeers, and longed to return to battle.
He found his chance when Louis XIV went to war with the Dutch Republic in the Franco-Dutch War. After being recalled to service, d'Artagnan was subsequently killed in battle on June 25, 1673, when a musket ball tore into his throat at the Siege of Maastricht, Netherlands

The real d'Artagnan's life was used as the basis for Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras' novel Les mémoires de M. d'Artagnan. Alexandre Dumas in turn used de Sandras' novel as the main source for his own novels.
 

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Tracking History (7039.9mi) View Map

Visited 1/23/2012 animjason took it to D&D ~ Year of the Dragon Colorado - 1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/23/2012 animjason took it to Dragon Protection ~ Year of the Dragon Colorado - 2.55 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/23/2012 animjason retrieved it from What's your Phobia? #5 Claustrophobia Colorado   Visit Log

Found at awesome cache
Dropped Off 1/21/2012 FlyingBug placed it in What's your Phobia? #5 Claustrophobia Colorado - 1,460.26 miles  Visit Log

Found this coin a over two months ago. Created a new underground cache to leave it in but never quite got around to activating it as I wanted to make a few adjustments to the hide first. Got a little prompt and now the work is complete coin is back in play. Almost guaranteed to be found with one day.
Visited 11/17/2011 FlyingBug took it to GobbleGobble Virginia - 1,455.67 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/9/2011 FlyingBug took it to Reader's Choice Colorado - 1,620.88 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/8/2011 FlyingBug retrieved it from A castle? Here? New York   Visit Log

First to grab this very nice coin. Will move along soon.
Dropped Off 10/26/2011 GCcarlos-XP placed it in A castle? Here? New York   Visit Log

A castle? Here?
I could not think of a better cache to start this coin journey than this one.
From this castle to Europe and hopefully back by next year.

This entry was edited by GCcarlos-XP on Thursday, 27 October 2011 at 03:11:28 UTC.

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