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| | HUNDRED YEARS WAR - LoveToKnow Article on HUNDRED YEARS WAR |
 | | Bordeaux capitulated on the 9th of October, and the Hundred Years War was terminated by the expulsion of the English, who were by this time so fully occupied with the Wars of the Roses as to be unable to take the offensive against France anew. |
 | | The principal causes of the war, which broke out in Guienne in 1337, were the disputes arising in connection with the French possessions of the English kings, in respect to which they were vassals of the kings of France; the pretensions of Edward III. |
 | | This name is given to the protracted conflict between France and England from 1337 to 1453, which continued through the reigns of the French kings Philip VI., John II., Charles V.,, Charles VI., Charles VIL, and of the English kings Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V. and Henry VI. |
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