Fearing for her life, Martha, at the urging of relatives, decided to free her deceased husbandâs slaves immediately. On January 1, 1801, a bit more than a year after Georgeâs death, Washingtonâs slaves gained their liberty.
The Hundred Years' War was a time of rapid military evolution. Weapons, tactics, army structure and the social meaning of war all changed, partly in response to the war's costs, partly through advancement in technology and partly through lessons that warfare taught.efore the Hundred Years' War, heavy cavalry (knights) was considered the most powerful unit in an army, but by the war's end, this belief had shifted. The heavy horse was increasingly negated by the use of the longbow (and, later, another long-distance weapon: firearms).
Several other contemporary European conflicts were directly related to this conflict: the Breton War of Succession, the Castilian Civil War; the War of the Two Peters; and the 1383-1385 Crisis. The term Hundred Years' War was a later term invented by historians to describe the series of events. The conflict was punctuated by several periods of peace before the French succeeded in recovering early gains made by the English, expelling them from the majority of France by the 1450s.