Kings and Generals explores the rise and fall of the Golden Age of Piracy, following the end of the War of Spanish Succession ...

The War of the Spanish Succession ended with Britain gaining control of Gibraltar, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia, but the legendary treasure stayed hidden.

War of the Spanish Succession; San Jose: 'Holy grail of shipwrecks' carrying £16bn in treasure sparks legal row The confirmation that the wreck of the San Jose, ...

The 64-gun, three-masted Spanish flagship alone carried as much as 200 tons of treasure with a modern value estimated as high as $17 billion by today’s standards.

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 ...