Discovery of 18th century Spanish galleon sparks £16 billion legal fight - Colombia, Spain, Peru and indigenous communities ...

The San José was sunk in 1708 by British warships while it was returning to Spain, with a cargo full of treasure meant to help fund The War of the Spanish Succession, a European conflict that ...

British officers, one with a telescope ... "in perpetuity" under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of Spanish Succession. In 1779 Gibraltar was a tiny isthmus three-quarters of ...

On June 8, however, the galleon had the misfortune of running across a squadron of five British warships during the War of Spanish Succession. The San José and two of its fellow ships ...

ISBN: 1913336492 War in Italy in the Early Eighteenth Century If you are interested in the War of Spanish Succession, then I humbly suggest ... The diplomatic ebb and flow is also covered but this is ...

The San José galleon — with 600 crew members onboard — sank some 2,000 feet on June 8, 1708, during a battle against the British in the War of the Spanish Succession. Built in 1698 by Duke ...

The former military base on the ... the fort's creation by the British was spurred when France sided with Spain in the War of the Austrian Succession against England in 1744.