Joan Of Arc
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is also called the Maid of Orleans, a patron of France
and a national heroine. Joan led the resistance to the English invasion in
the Hundred Years' War. She was born the third of five children to a
farmer. Jacques Darc and his wife Isabelle de Vouthon in the town of
Domermy on the border of provi ....
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.... the Loire. The resistance was
minimial due to the lack of leadership and a sense of hopelessness. Henry
the VI of England was claiming the French throne.
At the battle of Orleans in May 1429, Joan led the troops to a
miraculous victory over the English. She continued fighting the enemy in
other locations along the Loire ( Paine 211). Fear of troops under her
leadership was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army
at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John F ....
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