Joan of Arc receives her sword before setting out for Orléans during the siege of 1428–1429. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 -1431, aka The Maid of Orléans. Heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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