4. EDWARD III, WHO BECAME
KING IN 1327, DECIDED TO
RECAPTURE HIS
HEREDITARY LANDS IN
FRANCE.
5. RESULTS OF THE
WAR
THEENGLISH DEVASTATED
FRANCE
WASTED HUGE SUMS OF
MONEY
KEPT ONLY THE PORT OF
CALAIS
6. ENGLAND WON MANY
BATTLES BECAUSE OF ITS
NATIONAL UNITY, THE MILITIA
AND ITS WELL TRAINED
ARCHERS ABLE TO STOP THE
ATTACKS OF FRENCH
KNIGHTS ON HORSEBACK.
7. IN 1356, EDWAR’S SON,DEFEATED
THE FRENCH AT POITIERS AND
CAPTURED THE FRENCH KING.
RICHARD II TRIED TO COLLECT
TAXES TO PAY FOR THE WAR BUT IT
WAS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE
PEASANT REVOLT (1381)
8. THE REVOLT MEANT THE
BEGINNING OF THE END OF
THE FEUDAL FARMING.
AGRICULTURE WAS
REPLACED BY SHEEP
FARMING.
9. RICHARD II WAS GIVEN CREDIT
FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE
PEASANTS’ REVOLT, BUT SOON
THE BARONS WERE WORRIED
FOR THEIR OWN LANDS.
HENRY OF BOLINGBROKE
BECAME HENRY IV, ACCEPTED BY
THE PARLIAMENT IN 1399.
10. HENRY IV WAS SUCCEDED
BY HIS ELDEST SON, HENRY
V WHO RENEWED THE
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.
HENRY TRIED TO TAKE HIS
TROOPS TO CALAIS BUT
THE FRENCH EXPECTED
HIM NEAR THE TOWN OF
AGINCOURT.
11. THEENGLISH BOWMEN,
HOWEVER, ONCE AGAIN WON
THE DAY, AND AGINCOURT IS ONE
OF THE GREAT VICTORIES IN
ENGLISH HISTORY.
12. ACCORDING TO THE TREATY OF
TROYES HENRY WAS TO MARRY
THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES VI
OF FRANCE AND HEIR THE
THRONE.
13. THE FIGHTING IN FRANCE
CONTINUED. HENRY DIED OF
DYSENTERY IN 1422.
THE KINGDOM WAS RULED, UNDER
THE TERMS OF HENRY’S WILL, BY A
COUNCIL OF NINE
14. JOAN OF ARC
A YOUNGPEASANT GIRL NAMED
JOAN OF ARC WENT TO THE
FRENCH COURT AND DECLARED
THAT GOD HAD SENT HER TO
SAVE FRANCE.
15. TO SUM UP:
THEHUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
BEGAN IN 1337 AND LASTED
UNTIL 1453. IT WAS A SERIES OF
ATTEMPTS BY THE ENGLISH
KINGS TO ESTABLISH THEIR
CLAIM TO THE THRONE OF
FRANCE.
16. THE EFFECTS OF THE
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
THIS
WAR HAS BEEN
THOUGHT AS A NATIONAL
WAR SINCE IT WAS
FOUGHT BY MANY
GROUPS WITHIN ENGLISH
SOCIETY AGAINST ENEMY.
