Thirty Years' War

Bordeaux in 1453, the Hundred Years’ War is considered one of the bloodiest wars of its time (Saunders, Turnbull 125, 142). The war lasted 116 years (125). The Hundred Years’ War illustrates turmoil in history where England tried to control France so that the English kings could expand their territorial holding in France. The Hundred Years War that started in 1337 was actually series of wars (Saunders, Turnbull 125). One of the main contributing factors to the war was when the last French…

Mr. Donahue, Amongst the many remarkable figures in history, Joan of Arc is one of the most incredible. A simple maid, born in the farmlands of France during the Hundred Years war. Who was called, by God, to bring peace and unity her broken nation at a very young age. Joan then endured persecution and imprisonment from the enemy, always acting on God’s will and not her own. As Joan herself put it, “What I do, I do by commandment.” A very pious girl, Joan started hearing the voices of Saints and…

The Heroine of Medieval France How strong is your desire for wealth and power? If you ask the monarchs back in the medieval years, they would have probably told you “So strong it causes a war between nations”. History has proven their bid for power and wealth. In a specific case, the Hundred Years War was a battle of ownership for the French throne between the English and the French. But the more specific reasons were the ambition of French monarchy to expand their land, which contradicts…

the Battle of Orléans. After being captured a year later, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic by the English and their French collaborators on May 30, 1431 in Rouen, France (Joan of Arc Biography n.d.). At age 13 Joan of Arc started receiving visions of God telling…

Once these voices stopped it took three years for her to obey them. When Joan of Arc first arrived in Vaucouleurs nobody believed her story about the voices. After several days she convinced the Governor to let her talk to Charles the VII. Joan of Arc had a private discussion with Charles the…

In George Bernard Shaw’s play, Saint Joan, the Inquisitor fiercely orates in an attempt to denounce Joan of Arc for her then crime against European society: heresy. The Inquisitor exploits his audience, the French Clerics, through a riveting pathos-oriented speech, to stimulate their deep religious attachment, with elements of ethos to make him appear authoritative, and a vast use of logical fallacies to warp the situation into his hands, like clay on a pottery wheel, Inquisitor ceramics. The…

year’s war erupted between two long time medieval rivals, England and France. The war lasted even more than one hundred years with many people, battles, and even a French civil war.When France and England had that temporary cease fire, it could have been over. The civil war is what drew England back in. Without the war most likely never would have started again. The one hundred year’s war was a long one, with many peculiar events. King Edward III of England was one major player in this war.…

Question 1 The invasion of the Americas was a long drawn out process. It took many years for a successful attempt was made at colonizing the Americas. Starting with the Spanish and Cortes, in 1519, an attempt was made by the Spanish conquistadors to take over Tenochtitlan. The conquistadors were primarily around to steal money and goods and split it with the Spanish government. Cortes took along with him, eleven ships, five hundred men, and thirteen horses to the Yucatan try and conquer the…

colonists wouldn’t have had the slightest of chances in defeating the British. Out of all the nations the colonists took help from, France served the greatest role. They themselves had a harboring hatred for the British dating back to the Seven Years War and it showed when they were willing to send thousands of weapons and even some of their best military officers to the colonies. That too, the French were risking all their assets when they formed a shell corporation, The Roderigue Hortalez…

The Hundred Year’s War It was approximately two years ago that my husband and I started watching the television series called Game of Thrones. This show got me interested in the history of England and the various battles that took place there. Different countries experienced different effects from the conflicts. Powerfully strengthened by the battles; England became a one of the dominant countries in Europe. This paper explores the Hundred Years’ War which was a series of battles between…