How long did the War of Succession last in Spain?
War of the Spanish Succession
Military: the armies engaged in the Nine Years' War often exceeded 100,000 men and proved too large for the pre-industrial economies of its participants.[31] Those of 1701-1714 averaged around 35,000 - 50,000 but a dependence on water-borne transport accentuated the importance of rivers like the Rhine in Germany or the Adda in Northern Italy. Reliance on the local countryside for resupply limited operations in poor areas like Northern Spain; these factors confined campaigns to the same general areas.[lower-alpha 7]