The Hundred Years War brought us together as a people.\u00a0 Saxon and Norman.\u00a0 My family as well, both those that came to England and who stayed in Normandy.\u00a0 It forged us all into a single people.\u00a0 The English.\u00a0 We even stopped speaking French in the end.\u00a0 And though we lost Normandy, we became stronger.\u00a0 We became England, and forged ourselves an identity that few Continental peoples could ever understand.\u00a0 And that made all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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