Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War is the name modern historians give to what was actually a series of related conflicts fought over a 116-year period between the Kingdom of England and France, beginning in 1337 and ending in 1453. Historians group these conflicts under the same label for convenience. The war was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French civil war as much as an international conflict, the historian Philippe de Vries suggested that it had "taken place at a more or less provincial level." Fernand Braudel, quoting him, adds that "England acted as a province (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Braudel 1984 p. 353).

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Conflict - Kingdom of England - France - 1337 - 1453 - Civil war

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The war was significant due to factors such as: the introduction of new weapons and tactics which eroded the older system of feudal armies dominated by heavy cavalry; the first standing armies in Western Europe since the time of the Western Roman Empire; changes in the roles of nobles and peasants, and overall key developments in the early growth of nations and new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in medieval warfare.

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Standing armies - Western Europe - Western Roman Empire - Medieval warfare

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