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It's time we take a look at the war, the Nine Years War.

We've been dancing around at the edges of this thing for a while now, but it's where we're going to live moving forward.

The story of the pirates and this conflict all takes place on the fringes, but today we're going to jump right into the thick of it.

To look at the causes of this war, though, is almost futile.

If you look close enough, you can go back to the 100 years war or take it back to Charlemagne or the

Norman invasion of England or if you really want to go there the Roman Empire and you know the

Tudor Berge Wald. The conflict between France and Germany goes

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