2-653-441 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Capture of the Maid', 1864. Capture of Joan of Arc, (1412-1431), the Maid of Orleans, by the Burgundians while defending Compiegne, France, 1430. Joan of Arc is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. From A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 by James E. Doyle. [Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London, 1864]