Anglo-French relations

I don't know why England's history starts with the Norman invasion of 1066--it has been continuously occupied since around 10,000 BC.  (They like to claim it was the last time a military force landed on English soil, but that's not quite true--in 1595, a Spanish ship landed in Cornwall, set fire to much of Penzance, and left.  They actually just needed fresh water.)

Since William the Conqueror was a vassal of the French king, you would have thought conquering England would have lead to a peaceful co-existance between the two countries.  However, his heirs thought England was a backwater and believed they had a claim to the French throne, leading to a few wars:

1. 1109-1113
2. 1116-1119
3. 1123-1135
4. 1159-1189
5. 1202-1204
6. 1213-1214
7. 1242-1243
8. 1294-1298
9. 1300-1303
10. 1337-1453 (the Hundred Years' War)
11. 1475
12. 1488
13. 1489-1492
14. 1510-1513
15. 1521-1523
16. 1542-1546
17. 1549-1550
18. 1557-1560
19. 1589-1593
20. 1627-1628
21. 1666-1667
22. 1689-1697
23. 1702-1712
24. 1744-1748
25. 1749-1754
26. 1755-1763 (the French and Indian War, where England trained Americans to fight, leading to...)
27. 1779-1783 (the American Revolution--you know that Statue in New York harbor was from France, right?)
28. 1792-1802 (England actually tried to put down the French Revolution, leading to the rise of a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte...)
29. 1802-1815 (The Napoleonic Wars)

Napoleon decimated Europe, including Spain, which is what finally allowed Britain to become the foremost world power.  Their control of the seas went unquestioned for the next century, and they maintained the balance of power in Europe until a complex series of political manuevers meant that Britain and France actually became allies in 1904.  World War I exploded ten years later.