100 years war

[josie]

It may seem a strange question but how long did the 100 years war last.

[drochit]

116 years from 1337 to 1453.

[straz]

Historians some times refer to the wars between 1689-1815 as the Second Hundred Years War http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/UHS/WebSite/Courses/AP
EH/Files/Unit%20V/2nd_hundered_yearsa_war.htm

[bernardo]

that reminds me - I once read the Napoleonic wars being referred to as the First World War, and the First and Second World Wars are sometimes considered as a single war with a period of readjustment in between. So we have had one, two or three world wars, depending on the definition.

[firefly]

Referring to conflicts as 'The Hundred Years War' or 'The Second Hundred Years War' is just for the sake of simplicity. In reality more than one conflict takes place in a hundred years, almost by definition.

[gilf]

Thing is bernardo that the Napoleonic wars only invloved European coutries as far as I know and there for they couldnt really be refered to as a World war. This is obviously not the case for the first and second where the war involved people from every continent