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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 provinces of Champagne and Lor ....

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.... 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 Fastolfe fled the battlefield ( Nola ....