Saturday, April 29, 2006
This Day in Renaissance History
On this day in 1429, Joan of Arc entered the French city Orleans, then controlled by the British under siege, and would soon end its months of siege by clearing the city of live Brits, and pretty much turning the tide of the 100 Years War which lasted 116 years, from 1337 to 1453. So, to review and boxscore the War, for the first 85 years the war went England's way with English soldiers roaming most of France pretty much at will and royal led forces slaughtering the French knights at almost every major engagement (The Channel, Crecy, Calais, Poitiers, and Agincourt). The last 30 years leaned to France whose forces slowly drove the English out, except from Calais.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:51 AM 
