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Siege of Orléans
The Siege of Orléans was the English siege of the city of Orléans on the Loire from October 1428 to May 1429, during the Hundred Years' War. Its fall would have opened the south of France to the English and their Burgundian allies, but at the end of April 1429 Joan of Arc arrived with a relief force, and within days the French had taken the English forts and forced the besiegers to withdraw on 8 May. The victory turned the war in France's favour and led to the coronation of Charles VII at Reims that July.
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