While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), I’ve riffed on those monikers to ...

War in Italy in the Early Eighteenth Century If you are interested in the War of Spanish Succession, then I humbly suggest you get this book. It's the first in English on the subject and so the ...

On June 8, 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession, a British fleet sank the Spanish crown' s San Jose galleon off Cartagena. The ship sank after an hour-long combat when its powder ...