Second Hundred Years' War
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The Second Hundred Years' War is a term of periodization, or a historical era designation, coined by J. R. Seeley in his work The Expansion of England (1883). This term has been used to describe the series of military conflicts between Great Britain and France that occurred from about 1689 (or 1714) to 1815. These included several distinct wars such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
This concept has not been widely accepted in academia and has been challenged by some historians, who question whether it accurately reflects the complex and distinct conflicts between Britain and France during that period. The Second Hundred Years' War is named after the Hundred Years' War, which occurred in the 14th and 15th centuries.