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Year 1429 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
29 April – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the siege of Orléans. 7 May – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls. Joan of Arc becomes the hero of the battle by returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. 8 May – The English army abandons the siege of Orléans.
1429 ( MCDXXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1429th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 429th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 15th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1420s decade.
- Background
- The Battle
- Consequences
- Bibliography
After the English abandoned the Siege of Orléans on 8 May 1429, the survivors withdrew to garrisons along the Loire. A month later, having gathered men and supplies for the forthcoming campaign, the French army, under the command of the Duke of Alençon, set out to capture these positions and the bridges they controlled. On June 12 they stormed Jarg...
In this battle, the English attempted to employ the same methods used in the victories at Crécy in 1346 and Agincourt in 1415, deploying an army composed predominantly of longbowmen behind a barrier of sharpened stakesdriven into the ground to obstruct any attack by cavalry. Learning of the French approach, Talbot sent a force of archers to ambush ...
The virtual destruction of the English field army in central France and the loss of many of their principal veteran commanders (another, the Earl of Suffolk, had been captured in the fall of Jargeau, while the Earl of Salisbury had been killed at the siege of Orléans in November 1428), had devastating consequences for the English position in France...
Allmand, Christopher (1988). The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c. 1300–1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521319234.Barker, Juliet (2009). Conquest: The English Kingdom of France (PDF). London: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1408700839. Archived from the original (PDF)on 2018-06-12.Cooper, Stephen (2010). The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War. Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1848841239.Devries, Kelly (1999). Joan of Arc: A Military Leader. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0750918055.- 18 June 1429
- French victory [1]
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The siege of Paris was an assault undertaken in September 1429 during the Hundred Years' War by the troops of the recently crowned King Charles VII of France, with the notable presence of Joan of Arc, to take the city held by the English and Burgundians.
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