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  Posted by -OOPSIE- (U248494) on Saturday, 22nd October 2005

  What was the name of the war that the battle of Hastings was in?
  
  I just can't find anything that mentions its name.

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  Posted by Idamante (U1894562) on Saturday, 22nd October 2005

  It was part of the Norman Conquest. There is no named war in this case.

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  Posted by Aloof Nudist (U1727083) on Monday, 24th October 2005

  I often wondered what the "Seven Years War" was called whilst it was going on.

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  Posted by TonyG (U1830405) on Monday, 24th October 2005

  I often wondered what the "Seven Years War" was called whilst it was going on.Β 
  
  LOL. Probably just, "The War". But if you think that's bad, what about the Hundred Years War? Historians of the day would have had to wait a century (actually a bit longer, I think) before they could invent a suitable label.

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  Posted by Stoggler (U1647829) on Monday, 24th October 2005

  The Hundred Years War is just a convenient term coined in the 19th century by historians to describe the numerous conflicts between England nad France in the Middle Ages, purely for brevity's sake. The wars can be split into distinct periods of "operations" with their being many years of "peace" between the two nations. There was hardly any fighting between Richard II's reign until Henry V came to the throne when he resumed the hostilities.
  
  The contemporaries certainly never saw it as one long drawn-out war, but as a series of wars against the same old enemy! Both countries also were economically and politically unable to project a conflict for so long as they both had "problems" on other borders with other neighbours (for the English there was the then perennial conflicts with the Welsh and also with the Scottish and Irish - it was at this time that Henry V as Prince of Wales defeated Owain Glyndwr)

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  Posted by Idamante (U1894562) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005

  I often wondered what the "Seven Years War" was called whilst it was going on.Β 
  
  Wasn't it called "The War to give that bastard Frederick the Great a bloody good kicking"?

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  Posted by lolbeeble (U1662865) on Tuesday, 25th October 2005

  No, except possibly by Marie Therese of Austria, he finished up on the winning side and kept Silesia. In any case we had our own issues with France. It was the Indian war in the colonies wasn't it?

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  Posted by HenryMartel (U2353098) on Saturday, 29th October 2005

  In answer to the original question, was it "The Holy War to prevent that Viking Descendant Godwine succeeding to the throne that was promised by Edward to his kind cousins the Normans"?

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