Joan of Arc: The Peasant Girl Who Defied an Empire

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Before she was burned at the stake, a teenage girl with zero military training single-handedly terrified the entire English empire. Imagine being a 17-year-old peasant girl who can't even read or write, and deciding, 'Yeah, I'm gonna go save my country from an invasion.' Because that’s exactly what Joan of Arc did. It’s the 1400s, and France is losing the Hundred Years' War to England. Their prince is hiding, morale is at absolute zero, and the situation looks completely hopeless. The country is on the verge of total collapse. Enter Joan. Joan walks straight up to the future king and boldly tells him she’s had visions from saints ordering her to drive out the enemy. Most people would laugh her out of the room, but France was desperate. The Prince actually gives her an army, puts her in full plate armor, and sends her to the besieged city of Orléans. And she absolutely crushed it. Joan didn't just sit back and watch; she led from the very front of the line, took a literal arrow to the neck, kept right on fighting, and lifted the siege of Orléans in just nine days. She completely turned the tide of the entire war. She went from an ordinary farm girl to one of the most famous military icons in human history. Like and follow for more insane history stories!