The Battle of Ladon and Mézières was fought at Ladon and Mézières-en-Gâtinais between the French Army of the Loire led by Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines...
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training and tactics in the 1850s and 1860s. He commanded one of the armies which defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866 and the French...
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Montargis (category Burial sites of the House of Valois-Orléans)
Plantagenet, second daughter of King John of England and wife of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (killed at the Battle of Evesham), died here on 13...
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Meung-sur-Loire (category Communes of Loiret)
France. It was the site of the Battle of Meung-sur-Loire in 1429. Meung-sur-Loire lies 15 km to the west of Orléans on the north bank of the river Loire at...
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Beaugency (category Communes of Loiret)
English. On 16–17 June 1429, it was the site of the famous Battle of Beaugency, when it was freed by Joan of Arc. Beaugency also played an important strategic...
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Orléans (redirect from History of Orléans)
of the battle on 8 May 1429 which allowed Joan of Arc to enter and lift the siege of the Plantagenets during the Hundred Years' War, with the help of...
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Patay, Loiret (category Communes of Loiret)
department in north-central France. It was the site of the Battle of Patay on 18 June 1429. Communes of the Loiret department "Répertoire national des élus:...
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Beaune-la-Rolande (category Communes of Loiret)
department in north-central France. On 28 November 1870 it was the site of a battle during the Franco-Prussian War, in which French impressionist painter...
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Rouvray-Sainte-Croix (category Communes of Loiret)
the site of the Battle of the Herrings in 1429, when Sir John Fastolf beat off an attack on an English convoy taking supplies to the siege of Orléans;...
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Jargeau (category Communes of Loiret)
the battle. Jean de Dunois (1402-1468) joined the company of which he was captain to those of Jean II, Duke of Alençon, and commanded at the Battle of Jargeau...
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