The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . Ricliard Seauchamp, Earl of Warwick, us a Pilgrim, worshippiug at thnHoly Sepulchre, Medul of Joan of Arc; from a French work of 1634. CHAPTER VL of the Englisli before Montargis—Position of Charles VII.—Commencement of the siegtof Orleans—Salisbury killed—Battle of Herrings—Despair of the besieged—Proclamation—The peasant girl of Domremy—Joan of Arc travels to the court of Charles VII.—Receives authority to relieve Orleans—Enters the besieged city—En
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . Ricliard Seauchamp, Earl of Warwick, us a Pilgrim, worshippiug at thnHoly Sepulchre, Medul of Joan of Arc; from a French work of 1634. CHAPTER VL of the Englisli before Montargis—Position of Charles VII.—Commencement of the siegtof Orleans—Salisbury killed—Battle of Herrings—Despair of the besieged—Proclamation—The peasant girl of Domremy—Joan of Arc travels to the court of Charles VII.—Receives authority to relieve Orleans—Enters the besieged city—English belief in witch-craft—Terrors and defeats of the English—The siege raised—Defeats of Jargeau andPatay—Charles crowned at Rheims—Joan captured at Compiegne—Tried as a sorceressand burnt at Rouen—French war continued—Henry VI. crowned in Paris—The Englishdisgraces and losses—Henry married to Margaret of Anjou—Affairs in England—Theduchess of Gloucester accused of witchcraft—Arrest of the duke of Gloucester—Deaths ofGloucester and Beaufort. The war in France had been conducted without any decided success oneither side, after the victory at Verneuil in 1424, till
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