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King Edward III beleived that he deserved to have the French throne,
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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. The Flemings revolted against French control and made an alliance with England.
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Edward III landed in Normandy with an army of about 10,000 men. Philip VI commanded a disorderly host of mounted French men-at-arms and hired Genoese crossbowmen on foot. When the Genoese saw the arrows falling thick among them they threw down their bows and ran.
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After more battles (And French losses) and a revolution within France, A treaty with England was finally concluded at Bretigny
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the new king of France, Charles V, found an excuse for breaking the treaty and renewing the war.
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Soon after the accession of Henry V, the hero king of England, the struggle began again.
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the defeated and disunited French agreed that Henry V should marry Catherine of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France. It was further agreed that during Charles’s lifetime Henry should act as regent and that after Charles’s death Henry should reign as king of France as well as of England.
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Henry did not live to wear the French crown, and seven weeks later Charles also died. The death of these two monarchs left the claim to both thrones to Henry VI, the 9-month-old son of Henry V.
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Joan of Arc led the dauphin through a hostile country to be crowned at Reims as King Charles VII, and helped end the war
(The French Won)
