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siege of Orleans

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Noun1.siege of Orleans - a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429
Orleans
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
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To achieve this, she had to raise the siege of Orleans and get the Dauphin crowned King of France.
Raising the siege of the house of medicine by Orient, Jane M. / Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
Michael Jones explains in detail the potential and active roles played by the captive Charles during the tense period leading up to the siege of Orleans in 1428 and after, and shows how this "man of impressive bearing: intelligent and politically astute" (to his enemy, Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, "a great and felle-witted man") might have succeeded in bringing France to recognize Henry VI.
Charles d'Orleans in England (1415-1440). (Reviews) by Kuin, Roger / Renaissance Quarterly
The 17-year-old village girl told the hopeful king that she had received divine visions and heard voices instructing her to raise the siege of Orleans, which had been surrounded by the English, before bringing about his coronation and then driving the English out of France.
BOB DYLAN'S DILEMMA: WHICH BLONDE? by Karwowski, Michael / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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