Troops from New England captured a French colonial fortress. Military setbacks in Europe forced them to give it back.

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 ...

The “richest wreck in history” the Spanish galleon San Jose, was transporting treasure from Peru to Spain to finance the Spanish side of the War of the Spanish Succession when it was ...