Galileo Galilei
02-11-2008, 03:35 PM
McCain and the Hundred Years' War
John McCain has gone on the record, supporting 100 years of war in the Middle East:
McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"
http://video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=6077932230 652381401&q=mccain+100+ years+war&total=64&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
We have already had one Hundred Years' War, which is one too many for the people of the Occident. Now McCain wants another one.
Hundred Years' War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War
The Hundred Years' War is unique in history, in that everybody was a loser in that war. It is the only war in history where every single person alive at the beginning of the war (1337), was dead by the end of the war (1453).
The Hundred Years' War, like many other government wars, lasted longer than expected. It actually lasted 116 years, about the length of years that the oldest human beings in human history have lived.
This war was so gruesome, that they even continued fighting right on through the Black Death of 1347-1351, a plague which killed more people in Europe than WWII.
This war also produced such atrocities as the burning at the stake in 1431 of a young 19-year old religious girl named Joan of Arc.
It also produced the brutal atrocities of the infamous Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
Below, is a list of major battles fought in the Hundred Years' War. Why Senator McCain would want another one defies imagination:
1337 Battle of Cadsand
1340 Battle of Sluys
1345 Battle of Auberoche
1346 Battle of Crécy
1346–1347 Siege of Calais
1347-1351 The Black Death
1350 Les Espagnols sur Mer English fleet defeats Castilian fleet in a close fight.
1351 Combat of the Thirty
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1364 Battle of Auray
1367 Battle of Nájera (Navarette)
1372 Battle of La Rochelle
1380 Castilian fleet sacks and burns English port towns.
1385 Jean de Vienne, lands an army in Scotland, but is forced to retreat.
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1416 English defeat numerically greater French army at Valmont near Harfleur
1417 Naval victory in the River Seine under Bedford
1418 Siege of Rouen
1419 Battle of La Rochelle
1421 Battle of Bauge
1423 Battle of Cravant
1424 Battle of Vernuil
1426 March 6 French besieging army under Richemont dispersed by a small force under Sir Thomas Rempstone in "The Rout of St James" in Brittany
1429 February Battle of the Herrings
1428-1429 Siege of Orléans
1429 Battle of Patay
1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake
1435 Battle of Gerbevoy
1439 Following a surprise attack, John Talbot disperses a French army of 6000 under the Constable Richemont at Avranches in Normandy.
1440 John Talbot takes Harfleur
1450 Battle of Formigny
1453 Battle of Castillon
Ron Paul opposes 100 years of war in the Middle East, and had he been alive in 1337, he would have opposed the Hundred Years' War as well.
George Santayana
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Wisdom Quotes
http://www.wisdomqu otes.com/ 002322.html
John McCain has gone on the record, supporting 100 years of war in the Middle East:
McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"
http://video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=6077932230 652381401&q=mccain+100+ years+war&total=64&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
We have already had one Hundred Years' War, which is one too many for the people of the Occident. Now McCain wants another one.
Hundred Years' War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War
The Hundred Years' War is unique in history, in that everybody was a loser in that war. It is the only war in history where every single person alive at the beginning of the war (1337), was dead by the end of the war (1453).
The Hundred Years' War, like many other government wars, lasted longer than expected. It actually lasted 116 years, about the length of years that the oldest human beings in human history have lived.
This war was so gruesome, that they even continued fighting right on through the Black Death of 1347-1351, a plague which killed more people in Europe than WWII.
This war also produced such atrocities as the burning at the stake in 1431 of a young 19-year old religious girl named Joan of Arc.
It also produced the brutal atrocities of the infamous Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
Below, is a list of major battles fought in the Hundred Years' War. Why Senator McCain would want another one defies imagination:
1337 Battle of Cadsand
1340 Battle of Sluys
1345 Battle of Auberoche
1346 Battle of Crécy
1346–1347 Siege of Calais
1347-1351 The Black Death
1350 Les Espagnols sur Mer English fleet defeats Castilian fleet in a close fight.
1351 Combat of the Thirty
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1364 Battle of Auray
1367 Battle of Nájera (Navarette)
1372 Battle of La Rochelle
1380 Castilian fleet sacks and burns English port towns.
1385 Jean de Vienne, lands an army in Scotland, but is forced to retreat.
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1416 English defeat numerically greater French army at Valmont near Harfleur
1417 Naval victory in the River Seine under Bedford
1418 Siege of Rouen
1419 Battle of La Rochelle
1421 Battle of Bauge
1423 Battle of Cravant
1424 Battle of Vernuil
1426 March 6 French besieging army under Richemont dispersed by a small force under Sir Thomas Rempstone in "The Rout of St James" in Brittany
1429 February Battle of the Herrings
1428-1429 Siege of Orléans
1429 Battle of Patay
1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake
1435 Battle of Gerbevoy
1439 Following a surprise attack, John Talbot disperses a French army of 6000 under the Constable Richemont at Avranches in Normandy.
1440 John Talbot takes Harfleur
1450 Battle of Formigny
1453 Battle of Castillon
Ron Paul opposes 100 years of war in the Middle East, and had he been alive in 1337, he would have opposed the Hundred Years' War as well.
George Santayana
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Wisdom Quotes
http://www.wisdomqu otes.com/ 002322.html