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Battle of Jargeau
1429
12 June 1429
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Hundred Years War

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Shilling was fatally wounded). Two years later, William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk was defeated and driven off from the long English siege of Orleans and withdrew east to nearby Jargeau, captured the previous October by his brother Sir John de la Pole. However, Suffolk was forced to surrender the city to besieging French forces under Jeanne d’Arc and Jean Duke of Alencon. He and his brother were taken prisoner.


   
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