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 Failure of the Spanish line of the House of Austria

 King of Spain wills the succession to the Duke of Anjou

 Death of the King of Spain

 Louis XIV. accepts the bequests

 He seizes towns in Spanish Netherlands

 Offensive alliance between England, Holland, and Austria

 Declarations of war

 The allies proclaim Carlos III. King of Spain

 Affair of the Vigo galleons

 Portugal joins the allies

 Character of the naval warfare

 Capture of Gibraltar by the English

 Naval battle of Malaga, 1704

 Decay of the French navy

 Progress of the land war

 Allies seize Sardinia and Minorca

 Disgrace of Marlborough

 England offers terms of peace

 Peace of Utrecht, 1713

 Terms of the peace

 Results of the war to the different belligerents

 Commanding position of Great Britain

 Sea Power dependent upon both commerce and naval strength

 Peculiar position of France as regards Sea Power

 Depressed condition of France

 Commercial prosperity of England

 Ineffectiveness of commerce-destroying

 Duguay-Trouin's expedition against Rio de Janeiro, 1711

 War between Russia and Sweden