Clash of Crests - The Maid of Orléans

Seventeen years old. One white standard. One year. In 1429 a farm girl from Domrémy told the Dauphin of France that she had been sent to raise the siege of Orléans and crown him at Reims. Within a year she had done both. Within two she was dead. This is her war, battle by battle, and one battle more than history allowed.

The Maid of Orléans: fifteen chaptersThe Voices: eleven days through Burgundian country to reach the DauphinAudience at Chinon: find the king hidden among his own courtOrléans: the convoy from Blois, the siege-forts, Fort Saint-Loup and the assault on Les TourellesPatay: the field where the English longbow finally brokeMarch to Reims and The Coronation of Charles VIIParis, Compiègne, The Trial and RouenVengeance at Gerberoy and the last battle, Castillon, 1453Rescue the Maid: an alternate history in six chaptersAt Compiègne the drawbridge went up with Joan on the wrong side of it.

Make a different choice and her friends turn back for her, and a second campaign opens: the tower of Beaurevoir, a Burgundy divided, the Maid's return, Normandy, the Channel, and a battle before London.…