Have you heard of the War of the Spanish Succession and its consequences?

[Julie4]

[Anonymous]

Yes, though to be honest it’s a war I’m not very well read on. Lately I’ve been all about the 30 Year’s War. That and reading about New France.

[Julie4]

Oh really, what do you think of the new France? Too bad we lost it to the Brits lol

[Opinion Owner]

I know very little about it to be honest. I’ve been reading a little about Samuel de Champlain. It’s a very interesting period in history.

[RyanEC]

I know the war was started because Louie XIV wanted a bourbon king to reign in Spain.
In the end he achieved this goal but so much damage was done to his country military and financially.

[Julie4]

Because of the English who could not bear to see France with such a maritime power and have access to the wealth of the Spanish empire.

Ah what wrongs caused us the perfidious Albion lol

[RyanEC]

That’s true English did see an opportunity to kick France down.

[Julie4]

Of course, it is them who have largely financed this war. Moreover, the greatest English military leader of this war, the Duke of Marlborough, was an ancestor of Churchill. Anecdote, the Duke of Marlborough had been trained in France

[RyanEC]

Oh really, I didn’t know that.
Interesting.

[msc545]

"The War of the Spanish Succession, fought from July 1701 to September 1714, and triggered by the death in November 1700 of Charles II of Spain, was the struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Philip of Anjou and Archduke Charles of Austria." per Wikipedia.

What in the world caused your interest in this sort of obscure event?

[Julie4]

It is the interest in history and the geopolitical importance that makes me look at these events.

[msc545]

I see. Thanks for mentioning this event - I will now need to spend some time researching it as it sounds at first glance like it was important.

[Julie4]

The end of this war will be the beginning of England's rise as a great power.

For France it will put an end to this great maritime power which had been able to compete with England, which in the long term will cause France to lose its fight against England for world domination.

[msc545]

Yes, but the French still have better food and wine and art, so there is that.

[Julie4]

We didn't lose everything lol

[msc545]

You did not lose much of anything. I have lived in both France and England, and I far prefer France.

[Julie4]

I'm sure there are many good things about England, we both have our qualities and our faults. But we still lost the world domination to them, and that's already a lot lol

[msc545]

I live in the US. Be GLAD that your country does not aspire to world domination. The US is a poor country because of it in that the majority of our national budget goes to fund our military, which has not won a war since WW II. We are not what we used to be and we spend this money only to finance rich corporations and a relatively few wealthy people and politicians.

[Julie4]

If you want my simple opinion, I think that the United States could make a small effort at the social level to help its people to live better, especially in terms of health care.

However I think that you should be happy to be American, Yes the USA is not perfect, but neither is France and no country in the world is perfect, we all have our past with our glorious side and also sometimes darker.

But look at what the US has brought to the world and you can be proud to be American without any problem.

And you remain by far the world's leading power, economically, militarily, technologically, and culturally, dominating the world with no problem.

Again, in my simple opinion, the United States should make more effort on the social level, but I think that it is still a chance to live in the United States compared to most of the world.

[msc545]

I am not happy to live in the US at all. I am mostly ashamed of the poverty, lack of good health care, and constant wars. There is nothing good here - don't believe the propaganda.

[Avicenna]

Yeah, I read about it when I was a teenager. The most lasting affect was that the UK got Glbraltar.

[KostasKouvalis]

The name rings a bell, but I have no clue what it was about

[Julie4]

The end of this War will be the beginning of the rise of England as a great power

[KostasKouvalis]

But what was the war about?

[Julie4]

Louis XIV king of France, was going to give the throne of Spain to his grandson, the other countries were afraid that France was going to monopolize the immense Spanish empire, consequently a large European coalition was going to form against France

[pizzalovershouse]

I'm not shure I ever heard a out it

[Julie4]

The end of this War will be the beginning of the rise of England as a great power

[pizzalovershouse]

Oh I understand now

[EnglishEuropean]

Nope, I only know British history.

[Julie4]

It concerns the English history

[EnglishEuropean]

Please feel free to educate me!

[Julie4]

The end of this war will be the beginning of England's rise as a great power.

For France it will put an end to this great maritime power which had been able to compete with England, which in the long term will cause France to lose its fight against England for world domination.

[EnglishEuropean]

cool :)

[Julie4]

For you yeah lol

[Jay3344]

Yes and it’s not a much talked about war

[Jamie05rhs]

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