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"May I let bring a litter, for I cannot yet walk, and so go back with you to her?" "Indeed, I doubt if it were wise," said he; and so we stood gazing at each other, while I could have wept for very helpless anger. "I have it, I think," said he at last. "The Maid is right busy, as needs must be, gathering guns and food for her siege of Jargeau.
I find myself, therefore, in the same position in which M. Turenne found himself when opposed to the Prince de Conde at Jargeau, Gien and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. He did not execrate monsieur le prince, it is true, but he obeyed the king. Monsieur le prince is an agreeable man, but the king is king. Turenne heaved a deep sigh, called Conde 'My cousin, and swept away his army.
According to one account, written at the time, Suffolk surrendered to the Maid, as 'the most valiant woman in the world. And thus the Maid stormed Jargeau. The French slew some of their prisoners at Jargeau. Once Joan saw a man-at-arms strike down a prisoner.
The Maid listened with her grave eyes wide in amazement. "You say this to me here in Orleans! You who have seen what my Lord accomplished for us before! Shame upon you for your lack of faith for your unworthy thoughts. We march for Jargeau at dawn tomorrow!" Never before had we heard the Maid speak with quite such severity of tone and word. Her glorious eyes flashed with a strange lambent light.
In the interval she had taken Jargeau, Troyes, and other strong places; and she had defeated an English army in a fair field at Patay. The enthusiasm of her countrymen knew no bounds; but the importance of her services, and especially of her primary achievement at Orleans, may perhaps be best proved by the testimony of her enemies.
In this testimony the Duke d'Alencon said that at Jargeau that morning of the 12th of June she made her dispositions not like a novice, but "with the sure and clear judgment of a trained general of twenty or thirty years' experience." The veteran captains of the armies of France said she was great in war in all ways, but greatest of all in her genius for posting and handling artillery.
We reached Jargeau and began business at once. Joan sent forward a heavy force which hurled itself against the outworks in handsome style, and gained a footing and fought hard to keep it; but it presently began to fall back before a sortie from the city. Seeing this, Joan raised her battle-cry and led a new assault herself under a furious artillery fire.
Joan mounted her horse, made preparations for the assault, cheered the soldiers, working far into the night; and the next day the city surrendered, and Charles, attended by Joan and his nobles, triumphantly entered the city. The prestige of the Maid carried the day. The English soldiers dared not contend with one who seemed to be a favorite of Heaven. They had heard of Orleans and Jargeau.
'Yes, was the answer; 'and I had told my King I should be wounded. My saints had told me of it. 'In what manner were you wounded? he asked. 'I was, she answered, 'the first to raise a ladder against the fortress at the bridge. While raising the ladder I was struck by the bolt. 'Why, now asked the priest, 'did you not come to terms with the English captains at Jargeau?
And so for three days we marched, our ranks swelling, our hearts full of zeal and confidence, till news was brought us that the Duke of Suffolk, one of the bravest and most chivalrous of English knights and soldiers, had thrown himself and his followers into Jargeau, and was hastily fortifying it for a siege.
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