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1429 - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
 

 Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans", is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint













 Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in Domrémy, Bar, France. Believing that she was acting under divine guidance, she led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years' War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. She was canonized as a saint on May 16, 1920.

• NAME: St Joan of Arc
• OCCUPATION: Warrior
• BIRTH DATE: c. 1412
• DEATH DATE: May 30, 1431
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Domremy, France

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Joan of Arc was a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orlans.