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1355 was the struggle between the two countries renewed. France and England.
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1336 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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English victory at Battle of Crecy, use of longbows
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In July 1346 Edward III landed in Normandy with an army of about 10,000 men. The French pursued him to Crécy, where the English occupied the side of a little hill.
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A treaty with England was finally concluded at Bretigny in 1360, by which King John was to pay a large money ransom and Edward III was to have Guienne, Crécy, and Calais in full sovereignty. In return Edward renounced all claim to the French crown.
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1369 the new king of France, Charles V, physically weak but intellectually strong, found an excuse for breaking the treaty and renewing the war.
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Soon after the accession in 1413 of Henry V, the hero king of England, the struggle began again.
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English victory won, Henry VI
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Henry did not live to wear the French crown, for he died in 1422.
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Finally the war ended in 1453 with only Calais remaining in English hands.
