The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations of modern day Britain. The Making of the British Islesrecounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy.
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... French , so that by August 1450 , as John Paston was informed , ' we have not now a foot of land in Normandy ' . There followed two final campaigns ( 1451 , 1452–3 ) in the duchy of Gascony , where Gascon resistance to the French proved ...
... French party and had repudiated the English marriage . Arran probably hoped to have the queen married to his son . Henry's response was to unleash the earl of Hertford on some deliberately brutal raids : a seaborne invasion to sack ...
... French policy . French troops , albeit in far smaller numbers , continued to garrison Scotland , fuelling anti - French feeling ; Frenchmen were infiltrated into the household and even upper echelons of government ; and regular taxation ...
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The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 Steven G. Ellis No preview available - 2007 |