La Hire

La Hire (c.1390–c.1443) was a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He fought alongside Joan of Arc in Patay in 1429.

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Born ?tienne de Vignolles or Vignoles, La Hire joined Charles VII for the first time in 1418, when the English army invaded France. Three years later, in 1421 he fought at the battle of Bauge.

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He was a close comrade of Joan of Arc. As the King's captain, he commanded the advance guard at the battle of Patay, a French victory. When the English imprisoned Joan at Rouen in 1430, La Hire assaulted the town hoping to rescue her, only to be defeated and captured.

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Set free again, he won the battle of Gerbevoy in 1435 and was made Captain General of Normandy in 1438. He died at Montauban on January 11 1443 of an unknown illness.

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Hundred Years' War: The Hundred Years' War is the name modern historians give to what was actually a series of related conflicts fought over a 116-year period between the Kingdom of England and France, beginning in 1337 and ending in 1453. Historians group these conflicts under the same label for convenience. The war w...

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