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causal claim

The speaker attributes the English loss in the Hundred Years' War to King Henry VI's mental illness, which left him unable to function for months at a time.

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In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“And then the English lost the Hundred Years'”
“War because their King,”
“Henry VI.”
“was insane.”
“And he would just shut down months at a time mentally, just couldn't function.”
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