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Why did the English and French fight the Hundred Years war?

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King Edward the 3 of England said that he was the rightful king of France and that started the war

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The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) was an intermittent conflict between England and France lasting 116 years. It began principally because King Edward III (r. 1327-1377) and Philip VI (r. 1328-1350) escalated a dispute over feudal rights in Gascony to a battle for the French Crown

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