The English did not like Joan of Arc. They were furious that a woman, who claimed to be inspired by God, was inspiring the French forces. Before Joan's involvement in the Hundred Years War, the English had been mostly victorious. After her involvement the English believed that instead of her being inspired by God that she was inspired by the Devil.
orleans
It was an English victory against Joan of Arc in her first offensive battle
Joan is going to English class
Joan was 17 when she went into her first battle!
She was captured at the end of a battle in Compiègne in 1430, where she was fighting English and Burgundy forces. Whoever posted the "Battle of Hastings" was only off by four centuries (Hastings was in 1066).
Joan or Johanna
Saint Joan of Arc led the French army into battle.
Jeanne is the French spelling for the English "Joan", as in Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc).
Joan was 17 years old at the battle to lift the siege of Orleans in 1429.
Joan of Arc was French and helped the French in the battle.
Contrary to popular belief, Joan of Arc never actually fought in any battles. She was actually more important to the soldiers as a morale booster and source of inspiration, so she stayed behind the lines. She did get wounded by an arrow, but she didn't fight.
Joan of Arc had soundly defeated the English at the raising of the siege of Orleans in May, 1429 and at The Battle of Patay, where over 2000 English soldiers were killed that June. This prevented the English from gaining control over all of France and having Henry VI, their king, become the king of France, but rather Charles VII, who Joan had conducted to Rheims to be crowned. The English therefore feared and hated Joan, so that after she was captured by their ally, the Burgundians, who sold her to the English for 10,000 livres, they decided that they couldn't execute Joan for defeating them in battle, but they could get pro-English French clergy to try her for heresy. This mock trial was full of legal errors, Joan didn't even have a lawyer! All they could find against Joan was that she wore men's clothing, which was contrary to some obscure passage in The Bible. The reason Joan wore men's clothing on the battlefield was to wear armor to keep from being hurt and in prison she wore men's clothing to keep from being raped by her low class English guards. So Joan was burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431. 25 years later the pope ordered a review of this trial at the request of King Charles VII and so many errors were found in it, and that it had all been a "put up job by the hatred of the English" that Joan was found not guilty of heresy and the entire trial declared null in July, 1456.