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politic with bacillus from abroad. The English, instead, did their version of the
piece of American political theater “Who lost China”? that poisoned American
politics in the 1950’s—as if China was America’s to lose. However, France, or at
least the parts of France that were for the English Crown to lose, was lost. Losing
the territories was bad enough, but with the ill-conceived political decisions of
Henry VI, the French witnessed English appeasement like that of Neville
Chamberlain in a latter age. That show of weakness, and in French eyes lack of
resolution, gave them a window of opportunity to reconquer Normandy and all the
other English-held lands. From this arose the antecedents of the War of the Roses,
the dynastic struggles Henry VI unleashed by his perceived lack of legitimacy and
loss of the English holdings in France.
Notes
1. Lynn Harry Nelson, “The Hundred Years’ War, 1336-1453,” Lectures in Medieval
History, University of Kansas, accessed February 27, 2017, http://vlib.us/medieval/lectures/
hundred_years_war.html.
2. Archer Jones, The Art of War in the Western World (New York: Oxford University Press,
1987), 165-171.
3. Martin V. Cevald, Command in War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 51.
4. Jonathan Sumption, Cursed Kings: The Hundred Years War IV (London: Faber & Faber,
2015), 451.
5. Arthur H. Burne, The Agincourt War (Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions,
1999), 90-91.
6. Ibid., 91.
7. Trevor N. Dupuy, Curt Johnson, and David L. Bongard, The Harpers Encyclopedia of
Military Biography (New York: Castle Books 1995), np.
8. Sumption, 452.
9. Peter Paret, ed., Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 72.
10. S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War
(New York: William Morrow, 1947), 158.
11. Burne, The Agincourt War, 315.
12. Mrs. Miniver, directed by William Wyler (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942).
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