The Hundred Years' War

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• 01·The Hundred Years' War began primarily due to the dynastic claim of which English king to the French throne?
• 02·Joan of Arc famously led the French army to a momentous victory by lifting the siege of which city in 1429?
• 03·Which English king achieved a legendary victory against a much larger French army at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415?
• 04·The English army's success in early battles like Crécy and Poitiers was largely attributed to the superiority of what weapon?
• 05·The war is considered to have concluded in 1453 after a decisive French victory at which battle?
• 06·The Hundred Years' War was a dynastic struggle between the English House of Plantagenet and which French royal house?
• 07·Which French king was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 and held for a massive ransom?
• 08·Edward of Woodstock, a famed English military commander and son of Edward III, is better known by what nickname?
• 09·The 1420 Treaty of Troyes disinherited the Dauphin Charles and named which English monarch as the heir to the French throne?
• 10·After the war ended in 1453, what was the only remaining English possession on the mainland of France?
• 11·The first phase of the war concluded with which 1360 treaty, that granted England sovereignty over large territories in France?
• 12·A major peasant revolt in England in 1381, partly caused by the economic strain of the war, is known as what?