History A-Level

Foreign intervention

What Foreign intervention means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.

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Backing for challengers from foreign powers, including Margaret of Burgundy providing troops and James IV of Scotland supporting Perkin Warbeck.

Pearson Edexcel · Paper 3, Option 30: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509 - 5 Henry VII: seizing the throne and trying to keep it, 1485–97 (study guide)

The rebels invited Prince Louis of France to take the English throne, and the arrival of French forces in 1216 shifted the balance.

AQA · 2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216 – The end of John's reign, 1214–1216 (A-level only) (study guide)

Support from Scotland to the Percys and aid from France to Glyndwr, though neither ally could deliver a decisive blow.

Pearson Edexcel · Paper 3, Option 30: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509 - 1 The crises of 1399–1405 (study guide)

Austria defeated Piedmont at Custoza and Novara, and French troops besieged and fell the Roman Republic by July 1849.

Pearson Edexcel · Paper 2, Option 2D.1: The unification of Italy, c1830–70 - 1 Challenges to the restored order and the failure of revolution, c1830–49 (study guide)

Backing from abroad, specifically the provision of mercenaries by Margaret of Burgundy for the Simnel rebellion.

AQA · 2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499 – The end of the Yorkist Dynasty, 1486–1499 (A-level only) (study guide)

Topics that use Foreign intervention

2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216 – The end of John's reign, 1214–1216 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499 – The end of the Yorkist Dynasty, 1486–1499 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Paper 2, Option 2D.1: The unification of Italy, c1830–70 - 1 Challenges to the restored order and the failure of revolution, c1830–49 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Paper 3, Option 30: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509 - 1 The crises of 1399–1405 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Paper 3, Option 30: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509 - 5 Henry VII: seizing the throne and trying to keep it, 1485–97 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)

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