Joan of Arc
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- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Religion, Ethics, Military History
- Subcategories: Christianity, Christians, Churches, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Catholic Church, Catholics, Saints, Prophets
- Curriculum: Medieval History/Middle Ages, French History
Article abstract: Military significance: Joan of Arc led troops that forced British forces to abandon their seven-month siege of the city of Orléans. This was the turning point in the Hundred Years’ War and ultimately led to the driving of English forces out of France.
A defining event of the Hundred Years’ War was the defeat of French forces by the British, led by English King Henry V, at Agincourt on August 25, 1415. The French, demoralized by military losses and decimated by epidemics of plague that lasted from 1348 until Joan’s girlhood, were also...
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