Researchers have definitively identified the wreck of the San José, a Spanish galleon laden with treasure estimated at £16 billion, which sank in 1708. The discovery off the coast of Colombia has ...

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

This was during the War of the Spanish Succession. SUMMERS: The British were trying to capture the treasure on board, but the ship ended up sinking near Cartagena and the treasure was lost.

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 ...