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The Hundred Years' War is the name of a long military conflict between England and France (1337-1453), caused by England's desire to return Normandy, Maine, Anjou, etc., which belonged to it on the continent, as well as the dynastic claims of the English kings to the French throne. England was defeated, and on the continent it retained only one possession - the port of Calais, which it held until 1559... Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya, a Soviet and Russian medieval historian, tells the story. Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Doctor of Historical Sciences. Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages of Western Europe.