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Benjamin Gates (National Treasure) Born - Janurary 1957 Historian - Cryptologist - Adventurer - Treasure Hunter - Preservation (Ancient Artifacts)

Family History Benjamin Gates comes from a long line of historians, treasure hunters, and preserving ancient artifacts. Throughout his life he has aspired to become the discover of ancient artifacts and/or treasures related to American history. Ben Gates is a very well-educated individual in terms of history in addition to his intense sense of adventure and pursuits. Most of his historical interests stems from American history, of which, his family lineage played various roles in some of America’s historic events. Additionally, his family lineage is also mixed in with various important individual names ‘Ben Franklin Gates’. The family's passion can be seen in the full names of both Ben and his father, Patrick Henry Gates. As he is both intelligent and cagey, quests that seem impossible to most can plausibly be accomplished by Ben Gates. Though he carries a sense of humor and wit, adversaries should not underestimate him, as they will rarely understand all facets of a situation as well as he does. With a core group of skilled and trusted cohorts at his side, he will change the way we perceive our past. He investigates every component related to American history and pursues any adventure with great content. Ben is skilled at code-breaking, and has degrees in American History and Mechanical Engineering as well as being an ROTC-commissioned Navy Diving Officer.

'Historical Literature Regarding the Gates Family History in Early America#

Title	Released	Time period 1	Changing Tides	November 6, 2007	1612 2	Midnight Ride	March 8, 2008	1773–1775 3	Uncharted	August 26, 2008	1803 4	Westward Bound	December 23, 2008	1848–1849 5	Forever Free	April 28, 2009	1872 6	Roaring In	August 25, 2009	1920s

All of these books were created after the initial National Treasure Film however help aid in creating a historical picture regarding the family's involvement in various early American colonial events/times. They first begin telling the story of early Gates Family immigrants landing in Jamestown with the general belief that the New World will rescue their family needs and fortunes. They also later describe events leading up to the American Revolution, as well as the family's involvement with important early American statesmen and decisive historical events. Later on, the story regarding the treasure connected to the Founding Fathers comes into light, and early family members begin their pursuits in uncovering this famed treasure. Details and clues eventually lead the Gates Family members to believe that the treasure is located with someone or in something called the Charlotte. (As referenced in movie) The family history later progresses, and it is finally Benjamin Franklin Gates who is finally able to piece together to the clues regarding the treasure, as well as a very pivotal learning initiative that finally leads Ben to uncovering the Charlotte in the Arctic.

Movie Franchise

Benjamin Frankling Gates is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the National Treasure Film Franchise. Originally produced by Jerry BruckheimerJerry_Bruckheimer, the National Treasure Films focus on the adventurer-seeking personality of Benjamin Gates and his knowledge of American history. The National Treasure franchise even had its origins in literature, even where parts of story were slightly based in the production of the films. Disney Press also published a series of spin-off historical novels about ancestors of the Gates Family. The general time period the books cover start from the later 1600’s, all the way to the mid-1990’s, down to Benjamin’s grandfather who is quickly used in inspiring Benjamin’s pursuit to find the Charlotte. The story even starts with the family’s travelling and settlement throughout areas of the North-Eastern United States. In some moments, treasure relating to the American Revolutionary War was the pursuit of Ben’s ancestors, finally being found through Ben’s adventure seeking and shown in the first National Treasure. When he learns of the Charlotte story through his grandfather, his life pursuit is then decided, and he seeks adventure in discovering the Charlotte.

American Historical Pursuits

In National Treasure, Nicholas Cage’s character Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin Gates is the central protagonist of the films, and most of his pursuits stem from family told stories and historical family moments in early American history. Throughout the movie franchise, Benjamin Gates is identified as a historican and cyptologist who searches for any sort of ‘treasure’ or other ancient artifacts related to American history. Specifically, Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian, adventure seeker who searchs for a lost treasure of precious metals, jewelry, artwork and other artifacts that was accumulated into a single massive stockpile from the Knights Templar to protect the treasure, eventually hidden by American Freemasons during the American Revolutionary War. On all of his adventures, his assistant Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) always provides a funny attribute as well as sometimes helping Ben in times of need. Along his adventures, he meets a whole assortment of people, including his future wife through the theft of the Declaration of Indepence, Abigail Chase. In the movie, Ben discovers hints along the way including a coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence which points to the location of the treasure, but Gates is never along through his adventures.

Specifially the National Treasure movies are action-adventure mystery films distributed and funded by Disney Pictures, which also adds to the fact that the entirety of the franchise is well organized and funded. Throughout the movies, Benjamin Gates pursues various leads with the help of his assistant Riley Poole, his girlfriend Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), as well as some minimal supprt from his father, Patrick Henry Gates. His father however, does not contain the same treasure-seeker adventurer state of mind like Benjamin Gates, however he does provide some insight into various family history matters, and also sometimes collects ancient artifacts, (letters, tables, etc) more to its historical value than its monetary/treasure value.