In 1660, John II Casimir of Poland abandoned his claim to Sweden and signed the Treaty of Oliva, ending the Polish-Swedish War of Succession.

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It is being displayed in the Dutch exhibition to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the Spanish War of succession in 1713.

BBC: British Army's Railway Howitzer loaned to Holland

In 1700, Charles II of Spain died and was succeeded by Philip V, marking the start of the War of Spanish Succession.

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In 1744, in the War of the Austrian Succession, France declared war on England.

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In 1712, the French defeated the Allied British-Dutch forces at Denain, France, in the War of the Spanish Succession.

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This wasn't a clot of esoteric names and dates I'd dozed through in high school history, like the Habsburg Succession or the War of Jenkins's Ear.

NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'

The tragedy was that a succession of post-war leaders, whose intentions would be seen by many as honourable, made a series of disastrously ill-timed decisions.

BBC: The euro's survival 'requires political union'

History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.

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