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Philip VI arrested all English merchants in Flanders and took away the privileges of the Flemish towns and the craft guilds. This caused the Flemings to revolt against French control and make an alliance with England.
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Edward III claimed that he himself was rightfully the king of France because his mother was a sister of the late French king.
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Edward III landed in Normandy with an army of about 10,000 men.
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The english had already won the first great land battle of the long war but after Crécy, the town of Calais France surrenders.
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The war was lagged for 10 years becasue of the Black Death. Killed more than a third of Europe's population.
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The English now carried the conflict into southern France instead of confining it to the northern section as before
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After the Black Prince and his french men offered to surrender his spoils and his prisoners and to promise not to fight for seven years if he might be allowed a safe retreat. This offer was rejected(1356). And the French won yet again. But a traety was finally concluded at Bretigny in 1360.
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Charles V found an excuse for breaking the treaty and renewing the war. For nearly a generation the war then languished because of factional strife for power in both England and France.
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Victory followed victory in rapid succession, until finally Joan led the dauphin through a hostile country to be crowned at Reims as King Charles VII.
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Finally the war ended in 1453 with only Calais remaining in English hands.
