ABSTRACT
With the death of Bedford a change came over the situation of affairs in England. Hitherto the war in France had been carried on by the regent with small reference to the authorities at home, and largely by the aid of French taxes; questions of foreign policy had not till quite lately made their way into the mutual disagreements of party politicians. Even Gloucester, it seems, was ready to acknowledge that peace was necessary, and henceforth the ending of the hundred years' war was to be a growing desire, but parties were to fight over the means to that end. The last stage of the Hundred Years' War began with an almost simultaneous attack by the French on Normandy and Guienne. It was not till Charles entered Bordeaux on October 17th that the Hundred Years' War was at an end.
