(...) the conquest of peace (...) 1016 Followed by The Norman conquest of 1066 Including the battle of Hastings Then the crusades through the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries The French wars twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (...)massacred The first English civil war of 1215-1217 The first of many The hundred years war From 1337 to 1457 The war of the Roses 1455 to 1495 One of the holy wars 1510 to 1540 Another war created in the name of God The eighty years war 1638 to 1648 Followed by the great English civil war 1642 to 1651 The American revolution Of 1792 lasted until 1802 Followed by Napoleonic wars Of 1803 to 1815 Ending in the battle of Waterloo The wars are both murderous and horrorous Through around 1879 to 1902 World War I 1914 to 1918 The so-called war of the wars The Great War Millions slaughtered in Germany and France World War II 1939 to 1945 The war that should never have happened A fine example of mankind's inhumanity Including the bombing of Japan Vietnam 1956-1975 The war that America would never forget Or recently the Falklands war in 1982 The Gulf war of 1992 Mankinds destruction's made sure Throughout the ages