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Originally Posted by Seaver
Well according to the English, that was THEIR territory the French were occupying. It was a land dispute, it wasnt as if they just simply marched on France for no reason.
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The claim was thin, and the English knew it...it's not like anyone thought of the south of france as Britain. they just thought they could get away with claiming it.
then again, really any talk of nationality is a little anachronistic. But i think the way the story of the 100 year's war gets retold by Shakespeare, and is used to help produce the rivalry that peaks in the Napoleonic wars...
That, i think makes this rivalry the classic one. That, and i'm a student of this era, and not of Franco-Germanic relations. Go figure.