I was asked this on my blog (on a political post â€" the chap had stumbled into it looking for WSS stuff)
So I wrote a 800 word reply. (Why couldn't I do that this easily at school?)
I made it an open thread there â€" after reading my ramblings please feel free to comment there.
http://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/war-of-spanish-succession-open-thread (http://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/war-of-spanish-succession-open-thread)