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  Hundred Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thus, the war was in fact a series of conflicts and is commonly divided into three or four phases: the Edwardian War (1337-1360), the Caroline War (1369-1389), the Lancastrian War (1415-1429), and the slow decline of English fortunes after the appearance of Joan of Arc.
In the early years of the war, Edward III allied with the nobles of the Low Countries and the burghers of Flanders, but after two campaigns where nothing was achieved, the alliance fell apart in 1340.
With the death of the Black Prince in 1376 and Edward III in 1377, the prince's underaged son Richard of Bordeaux succeeded to the English throne.
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 Hundred Years War
An immediate pretext for war was the claim of the kings of England to the French throne.
An important economic cause of the Hundred Years’ War was the rivalry between England and France for the trade of Flanders.
The English war effort was so weakened by the loss of strong leadership that the guerrilla tactics of Du Guesclin won back for France most of the territory ceded to England by the Treaty of Brétigny.
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 eHistory.com: Middle Ages: Hundred Years War: Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Hundred Years War, lasting from 1337 until 1453, was a defining time for the history of both England and France.
The Hundred Years War were a series of chevauchees (plundering raids), sieges and naval battles interspersed with truces and uneasy peace.
One of the main causes of the Hundred Years War centered on the relationship between the Kings of France and England regarding the duchy of Aquitaine located in Southwestern France.
ehistory.osu.edu /middleages/hundredyearswar/overview.cfm   (436 words)

  
 The Progressives’ 100 Years War
A few months before I was born, the Korean War had just ended, World War II was just eight years in the past, and our Vietnam nightmare was just beginning.
After all, those who fought the Japanese in World War II had to deal with kamikaze attacks, and armed forces of all sides in that war dropped bombs on civilians.
During those wars, millions of people have lost their lives, whole cities have been destroyed, and many societies have been wrecked.
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 WHKMLA : History of England : the Hundred Years' War, the War
The war began with the Estates of Flanders, dependent on English wool exports, refusing to accept their count's loyalty to France; Flanders joined the English, and the English fleet won it's first victory in the BATTLE OF SLUIS (1346) over the French.
The events of the 100 Years War are, for the most part, describes in the CHRONICLE OF JEAN FROISSART, a historian native to Hainault (modern Belgium).
The repeated wars with France over the centuries resulted only in the loss of the possessions in France; England was now free to enjoy it's SPLENDID ISOLATION and focus on the conquest of the Celtic fringe of the British islands.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/britain/100yearswar.html   (686 words)

  
 Armored Trooper Votoms - 100 Years Of War
The history of the Astragius Galaxy is a mosaic of destruction in which the key roles of the Hundred Years War were played by the Gilgamesh Confederation and the Balarant Union.
This war, the third major conflict in recorded history, started along the Gilgamesh / Balarant frontier in Astragius Year 7113, roughly 500 years since the previous conflict.
One planet after another had become swept up in senseless battles throughout the history of the galaxy, and the one constant they all shared was a point of origin with this mysterious civilization...
www.geocities.com /armored_trooper_votoms/about/100yw.htm   (520 words)

  
 Forest Magazine Publisher's Note: Our 100 Years War
In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent — war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
Since 1910, when hostilities were first declared, 883 firefighters have lost their lives in the war against forest fires—twice the number of total allied casualties in both Gulf Wars.
At $100 an acre (much less than most estimates), the total bill would be $19 billion, which, of course, would have to be paid every twenty to thirty years to keep up with the regrowth of brush and trees.
www.fseee.org /forestmag/0303our100yearswar.shtml   (723 words)

  
 Rules of Card Games: 100 Years War
In the 1330's, fighting started in the Hundred Years' War because the Kings of England -- descendants of William the Conqueror who still spoke French -- wanted to rule France as well.
Players who played one or more deuces ("Dogs of War" cards) may now select a card (one for each deuce) which has been played face up by any player during this battle, and add it to their hand.
Note that deuces function normally during battles (e.g., three 2's make three-of-a-kind) in addition to their "dogs of war" ability, but they are not wild cards.
www.pagat.com /invented/100yearswar.html   (1042 words)

  
 Causes of Hundred Years War:
Most of the war was fought on French soil so there were great population and property loses that weakened France for the next hundred years.
The struggle between France and England called the Hundred Years' War was the longest war in recorded history.
One lasting result of the hundred years' conflict was that the struggle to expel the foreigner from their soil had planted in the French the seed of the intense patriotism that came to characterize France.
killeenroos.com /2/100YEARS.htm   (1751 words)

  
 Fast facts on war and disputes
It was during the 100-years war that direct taxation on income was introduced, a British invention designed to finance the war with France.
During the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC, Spartans used sulphur and pitch to overcome the enemy.
During the French and Indian wars in North America (1689-1763), blankets used by smallpox victims were given to American Indians in the hope they would carry the disease.
www.didyouknow.cd /fastfacts/war.htm   (431 words)

  
 100 Years War, King Edward III, Longbows at Crecy
It was the start of a long series of raids and English invasions with intervals of peace in between.
The first big battle of the war was at a port in Flanders in 1340 between the English fleet of 200 and a much larger fleet of French.
The war was unpopular because of loss of life and high taxes, so King Richard of England made peace in 1396.
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 Hundred Years' War
After a year, the inhabitants were starving - but under medieval tradition, they would expect to be killed if the attackers succeeded, because they had fought back.
Destructive fighting disrupted the economy: there were appalling plagues (at least a third of the population of both England and France died in 1348 in the Black Death), and violent and bloody revolts in which peasants looted nobles' houses and castles.
That was really the end of the One Hundred Years war so far as England was concerned, though a formal treaty to end the war between England and France was only signed in 1475.
www.theotherside.co.uk /tm-heritage/background/100yearswar.htm   (2209 words)

  
 BudoSeek! Martial Arts Community - Iraq War & 100 Years War
The impact of the English war eventually galvanized the French, setting the stage for a radical and new concept of French nationhood.
To make war a national way of life, you must have ambitious political myth-makers, strategists behind the scene with murky and constantly changing objectives, and lots and lots of the precious treasure of peasants and merchants, er… taxpayers.
Well there was a 100 years war that lasted 20 odd years and a 100 years war that did last 100 years, well it was slightly over, but who is counting.
www.budoseek.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=9392   (1572 words)

  
 Papal Schism, 100Years War, Black Plague
The last of the three plagues to visit Europe in the fourteenth century was the Hundred Years War (1337-1453).
Another cause of the war was the succession controversy occasioned by the death of the last Capetian King in 1328.
The English King, Edward III, whose mother was the daughter of Philip the Fair, claimed the throne as did Philip of Valois, son of Philip the Fair's younger brother.
www.li.suu.edu /library/courses/hum101/papal.htm   (2027 words)

  
 100 Years War (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The causes of the war include French threats to English holdings on the continent and PhilipVI's aid to David Bruce when he was driven out of Scotland.
The war next entered an inactive phase due to the arrival in England and France of the Black Death in 1348.
John of Bedford was named regent in France and continued the war defeating the forces of Charles VII at the battles of Cravant in 1423 and Verneuil in 1424 with the aid of Philip of Burgundy.
www.housedragonor.org.cob-web.org:8888 /A&S/100YearWar.html   (1525 words)

  
 Armies of the 100 Years War for Warhammer Ancient Battles
This list allows you to create a wargames army for the French during the early part of the 100 Years War (1337-1360).
The 100 Years War has its roots as far back as the Conquest of England by the Normans.
The French used this tactic several times during the 100 Years War, however their contribution to the battlefield was often dubious.
www.geocities.com /garrand.geo/french.html   (1253 words)

  
 truth: the Anti-drugwar Have You Had Enough Drug War Yet?
Visit the on-line Drug War Chronicle and the Media Awareness Project websites to see how the insanity of drug war continues around the world.
As if it weren't bad enough for the nations' wartime enemies to attempt the drugging of Americans, the American government itself spent some time slipping drugs to unsuspecting victims as part of their hunt for a drug that could turn a man into a mindless zombie.
Even the Drug Enforcement Agency can't figure it out, as they have classified marijuana's principle ingredient (THC - or tetrahydrocannabinol), as a Schedule III medicine, if it is in the man-made form, but as a dangerous, addictive Schedule I "narcotic" with no medical use if it is contained in a marijuana plant.
www.briancbennett.com /history/drugwar.htm   (558 words)

  
 100 Years War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There were several immediate causes: a quarrel between Edward III of England and Philip IV of France over a part of Guienne held by France; English attempts to control the commercially important Flanders, a French possession; fishing disputes in the English Channel; and Philip's support of Scotland in its dispute with England.
The English won a sea battle at Sluis (1340) and land battles at Crécy (1346), Calais (1347), and Poitiers (1360), where King John II of France was captured.
The current emphasis is on the Hundred Years' War and aspects that are not generally covered in English lauguage writings.
www.bibliotheca.org.uk /links/war/ad1300/100years/100years.html   (448 words)

  
 Feature article: The 100 years war
The social discontent from before the war spilled over during and after the war in the Glasgow rent strikes, the support for the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the huge strike wave of 1919.
After the war, women tended to be thrown out of the 'men's jobs' but already their work patterns had changed forever.
In the US the Depression years saw millions of workers lose their jobs as capitalism crashed; but the 1930s was also the decade where the biggest single number of women workers joined the workforce.
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 100 Years War - Henry V, Agincourt, Calais, Treaty of Troyes
100 Years War - Henry V, Agincourt, Calais, Treaty of Troyes
Not until 1413 did England have a king who would be willing and able to continue the fight.
Later he returned to France, and within five years Henry had conquered all of northern France.
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 DBA Campaign
Tributary players may wage war against any other players without permission of their overlord.
Players may only be tributary to the King of France, the Duke of Burgundy, or the English, except that the King of France and the English may never be tributary to anyone else.
If the rebellion is not crushed before the same season (Summer, Spring, Autumn) of the next year, he may declare a new overlord.
www.armory.com /~fathom/dba/100yw.html   (1582 words)

  
 Hundred Years' War, Final Phase (1422-1453) Web Page
The final phase of the Hundred Years' War encompassed the obviously dramatic, first effective employment of gunpowder weapons (aside from the Hussite Wars of 1413-36) in Western Europe.
It was the organization and direction of the artillery arm by Jean and Gaspard Bureau, that enable the French army to prevail in rapid siege operations as well as in pitched battles.
The final phase of the Hundred Years' War contained two battles that ran contrary to the some of the touted themes of medieval warfare espoused by many military theorists.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Jean Froissart: On The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
The "Hundred Years' War" between France and England (1337-1453) was an episodic struggle lasting well over a hundred years, for much of the time without any conflict.
The lord Charles of Bohemia his son, who wrote himself king of Almaine and bare the arms, he came in good order to the battle; but when he saw that the matter went awry on their party, he departed, I cannot tell you which way.
Truly this battle, the which was near to Poitiers in the fields of Beauvoir and Maupertuis, was right great and perilous, and many deeds of arms there was done the which all came not to knowledge.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/froissart1.html   (1006 words)

  
 Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal: The 100 years (bias) war...
Just four years ago, Rowett broke the story that several members of a state ethics committee investigating President Bill Clinton had given contributions to either Clinton or the Democrats.
Indeed, one of Pew's sharpest findings this year was that while 58% of the general public holds that one must believe in God to be a truly "moral" person, only 6% of national journalists feel that way, and 18% among the local press.
She explains, for example, that the paper's coverage of illegal immigrants crossing at the Mexican border was evened out once staffers began regular communications with American Border Patrol, a conservative group seeking to tighten control of illegal crossings.
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 College Football Gameday: A 100-Year War Rages On - Bodog Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
College football is up to its shoulder pads in rivalries, but not many have 100 years of hatred like the Red River rivalry between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns.
After being blanked by Oklahoma last year, Young emerged as the Longhorns' leader as they closed the season on a 7-0 run.
And this year, Young has been the Texas offense, leading them in passing (780 yards), rushing (310 yards), touchdowns (nine) - and focus.
www.bodognation.com /sports-betting-news/ncaa-a-100-years-of-war.html   (751 words)

  
 Insider Notes from the Pentagon: 100 Years’ War
Hundred Years’ War, running from 1337 to 1453.  Well, that’s actually more like 116 years, but if we can’t fudge numbers, we shouldn’t be working at the Pentagon.
Edward III was only 18, but had Texas-sized ideas on who should rule the world.  Naturally, France didn’t really see all the finer points of Edward’s claim, and invoked the Salic Law (circa 480 A.D.) that prohibited inheritance through female lines.   Kind of like an early version of international law and about as effective.
Mercenaries and military-congressional-industrial entities profiting from all angles in continual war, domestic economies squeezed to pay for military adventurism while domestic security suffers sclerosis, near-sightedness and dry rot, and the “enemy” taking long deep draws on the pipe of religio-righteous nationalism.  Mr.
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 The Battle of Emsdorf - Seven Years War
Six battalions of Hanoverian and Hessian infantry, some irregular cavalry under Luckner, jägers and the newly raised British 15th Light Dragoons.
Its colonel was Augustus Elliott, subsequently to gain a considerable reputation as the governor of Gibraltar during the siege in the American War of Independence.
Many of the recruits to the 15th are said to have been tailors who were on strike when the regiment was being raised.
www.britishbattles.com /seven-years/emsdorf.htm   (844 words)

  
 Introduction - Message Board - ezboard.com
This was the trigger for the Hundred Years War as successive English kings attempted to uphold their claim to the French throne.
Catastrophic defeats at Crécy and Poitiers shook the French kingdom to its core.
After that date the French began a recovery, partly triggered by the young visionary Joan of Arc, that would end with them as the major European military power.
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