From October 1428 to May 1429, the English laid siege to Orleans in pursuit of the French crown. Their claim was denied by a teenage girl named Joan of Arc, who wrote to the English captains ordering them in God’s name to leave Orleans and France, after making reparation for all their damage, or they would face her wrath.

Joan told the English that if they obeyed her order to quit France, they would save their lives; but if they resisted, they would be resisting not only Charles VII, in her eyes the only rightful king, but God himself, and by her hand God would visit destruction on them wherever they may be in the land.

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