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below the first intrenchment of the English, they found
boats ready to receive the ammunition and provisions.
While these were embarking, Joan drew up her troops with
such a shew of resolution, that the English did not think it
prudent to attack her. They even abandoned one of their
towers, called St.John le Blanc; of which she immediately
took possession, and the convoy got safe into Orleans.
This success fully answered all the ideas the French had
conceived of their heroine’s mission and virtues. The next
morning the Count de Dunois himself passed over to the
tower of St. John, where Joan still continued. He was at-
tended by some of the principal inhabitants, and all joined
to invite her to cross the river, and take upon herself the de-
fence of the city. Joan received their offers with as much
state and dignity, as if she had been always used to com-
mand the most powerful armies. She, however, yielded to
their intreaties though her first resolution was to have at-
tacked the English quarters, and brought on a general engage-
ment. When she entered Orleans, the people gazed at her
as a divinity, and from that moment considered themselves in-
vincible. She lodged in the house of one Bouchier, the trea-
surer to the Duke of Orleans, whose wife and daughter she
kept constantly about her person, to prevent any suspicion
of her chastity.
The garrison and citizens of Orleans thinking they had
an army in the person of their female commander, suffered
the troops who had guarded the convoy, to return to Blois,
under the conduct of St. Severe, who engaged in two or
three days to introduce another convoy on the side of
Beausse, by which they would be free from the inconveni-
ency of embarking the provisions in boats. As they ex-
pected a very strong opposition in this quarter, the detach-
ment that guarded the convoy was strengthened by forces
from all the neighbouring garrisons belonging to Charles.
When the French first presented themselves before the
English lines, which happened early in the morning, Joan,
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below the first intrenchment of the English, they found
boats ready to receive the ammunition and provisions.
While these were embarking, Joan drew up her troops with
such a shew of resolution, that the English did not think it
prudent to attack her. They even abandoned one of their
towers, called St.John le Blanc; of which she immediately
took possession, and the convoy got safe into Orleans.
This success fully answered all the ideas the French had
conceived of their heroine’s mission and virtues. The next
morning the Count de Dunois himself passed over to the
tower of St. John, where Joan still continued. He was at-
tended by some of the principal inhabitants, and all joined
to invite her to cross the river, and take upon herself the de-
fence of the city. Joan received their offers with as much
state and dignity, as if she had been always used to com-
mand the most powerful armies. She, however, yielded to
their intreaties though her first resolution was to have at-
tacked the English quarters, and brought on a general engage-
ment. When she entered Orleans, the people gazed at her
as a divinity, and from that moment considered themselves in-
vincible. She lodged in the house of one Bouchier, the trea-
surer to the Duke of Orleans, whose wife and daughter she
kept constantly about her person, to prevent any suspicion
of her chastity.
The garrison and citizens of Orleans thinking they had
an army in the person of their female commander, suffered
the troops who had guarded the convoy, to return to Blois,
under the conduct of St. Severe, who engaged in two or
three days to introduce another convoy on the side of
Beausse, by which they would be free from the inconveni-
ency of embarking the provisions in boats. As they ex-
pected a very strong opposition in this quarter, the detach-
ment that guarded the convoy was strengthened by forces
from all the neighbouring garrisons belonging to Charles.
When the French first presented themselves before the
English lines, which happened early in the morning, Joan,
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