After the Hundred Years War, we consolidated our rule over the entire island of Britain.  And we expanded into other regions of the world, colonizing the Americas, Africa, Asia, and even Australia.  We circumnavigated the globe, with ships of war unmatched in technical sophistication.  The sun never set on our empire.  Of course, the offshoot of my family that remained in France was busy too.  That led to some difficulties in later centuries.