Siege of Orleans Lifted
May 8, 1429
A seventeen-year-old peasant in a suit of white armor rode through the gates of the starving city and, in nine days, broke an English siege that had choked Orleans for seven months. Joan of Arc had told her captains where to attack and been right. The Dauphin's men were now believers.
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