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

For over 30 years, during the golden age of piracy, the true master of the Caribbean was not an English pirate, but a ...

The world's oldest restaurant, Sobrino de Botín, faces a challenge from another Madrid tavern that claims it is even older... Let the tavern wars begin.

HISTORYFor several centuries - especially from the 16th to the early 20th century - Europe’s royal families were deeply ...

Along the coast of Colombia, dozens of gold coins scattered across the ocean floor have been confirmed to have belonged to ...

News World news 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, a Spanish galleon ...

The treasure was being transported from Peru to Spain to fund the War of the Spanish Succession against Britain and its allies. Gold and silver coins, pearls and gems, claimed to be worth as much as ...

In June 1708, during the height of the War of the Spanish Succession, the ship encountered a British squadron and was attacked off the coast of present-day Colombia.

Its owners assert the establishment endured not just the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the Napoleonic invasion in the early 1800s, but even the War of Spanish Succession at the start of the ...

The War of the Spanish Succession concluded with the British Empire taking control of Gibraltar, as well as Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in Canada.

The San José, a Spanish ship, sunk in June 1708 after an attack by the British Royal Navy off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia.

In a historic breakthrough, researchers have confirmed the identity of a long-lost Spanish galleon shipwreck off Colombia’s Caribbean coast as the legendary San Jose, sparking a multi-billion-dollar ...