Henri Beyle Stendhal: A Capsule Biography Pmc
But before that could be accomplished, the very important and strategic town of Orleans, whose lord, the duke of that name, had been an English prisoner because the battle of Agincourt in 1415, had to be taken. An English army, led by Thomas, Earl of Salisbury, began the siege late in September 1428. But six weeks later Salisbury was dead, killed by a cannonball, whilst six months later, on May 8th, 1429, the English army was obliged to abandon the siege as the direct result of the exploits of Joan of Arc. Some ten weeks afterwards, on July 17th, 1429,...