When most people think about war, the see one quick decisive battle that results in a winner and a loser and tons of dead bodies.That’s rarely ever true.One example of this is the Hundred Years’ war. The Hundred Years’ war was a group of periodic battles fought over who gets to be the successor of the French king , Charles IV. The cause of the war can be traced to one specific incident; Charles IV’ death, but the effect was important in the way these two countries grew and the overall significance was that it led to one of the greatest reforms in European history One of the 2 major contestants, King Edward III, claimed that since he already owned Guyenne in southwestern France and because that he was Charles IV‘s nephew along with the fact that Charles IV had no sons , he was eligible for the throne of France. The other contestant was the Count of Valois, a grandson of Philip III of France. The Valois Dynasty was the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589. A French assembly was held to decide who would be the ruler of the French kingdom. They chose Philip VI of Valois. Edward III was okay with this, that was until Philip VI decided that he didn’t want another king’s presence in his kingdom and tried to take over Guyenne. Due to this, Edward III reopened his
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They were usually long, drawn out sieges, attacks on forts and walled cities. The French were on the defensive almost all the time in the beginning but the English didn’t make much progress in terms of regaining control of the land they previously owned. One of the major victories for the British in the Hundred Years’ war was the battle of Crécy. The battle at Crécy shocked European leaders because a small English force fighting on foot had overwhelmed the best cavalry in Europe. The French were thought to have lost fourteen thousand men while the English only lost two hundred. Although this was a major victory for them, it only went downhill from
They were usually long, drawn out sieges, attacks on forts and walled cities. The French were on the defensive almost all the time in the beginning but the English didn’t make much progress in terms of regaining control of the land they previously owned. One of the major victories for the British in the Hundred Years’ war was the battle of Crécy. The battle at Crécy shocked European leaders because a small English force fighting on foot had overwhelmed the best cavalry in Europe. The French were thought to have lost fourteen thousand men while the English only lost two hundred. Although this was a major victory for them, it only went downhill from