The Hundred Years War

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Introduction

Origin of the name

Period

Causes of the war

Succession battles

Family feuds

Economic

Control of Key points

Politics

Military

Victory for France

Strengths

Effects of the war

Social

Political

Economical

Conclusion

Bibliography

Introduction

The term Hundred Years war was ' coined in France in the early years of 1860s basically to describe the conflicts that ensued between France and England from 1337 to 1453 .The struggle

is believed to have lasted more than one hundred years with period of peace agreements in between . The conflict was characterized by a state of warfare punctuated by truces in between this period . As observed by Sumption , J (1999 ) even such periods when peaceful situation prevailed there was a kind of cold war that existed between the two antagonistic fiefdoms . The hostilities between the two sides spilled to other parts of the continental perhaps giving rise to other conflicts that were witnessed especially the Spanish civil war in 1360s

This was not the first battle for the two sides they had been at war on many other occasions before with the most recent ones being fought between 1294 to 1297 and 1324 to 1327 .These wars were mainly over the ownership of territories which England claimed from France . By the end of the thirteenth century France had lost some territories . England on the other hand had lost control of many lands such as Normandy . In 1259 the two sides signed a treaty which was known as the...