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When Pyrrhus invaded Apulia (279 BC), the two armies met in the Battle of Asculum, where Pyrrhus won a costly victory. [34] The consul Publius Decius Mus was the Roman commander, and while his able force was ultimately defeated, they almost managed to break the back of Pyrrhus' Epirot army, guaranteeing the security of Rome itself.
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk] ⓘ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Scholar François de Bouteiller determined that Joan's great-great nephew Charles du Lys (d. 1632) was the "last remaining male of the line". [7] Clotilde's great-great-grandfather Henri Gautier renamed his children "d'Arc" after Charles X granted him an Ordonnance Royale in 1827. [8] [9]
Joan of Arc Listening for the First Time to the Voices That Predict Her Prominent Fate: Pedro Américo: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro: oil on canvas, 229 × 156 cm (90.2 × 61.4 in) 1886 The Maid of Orleans, entrance of Joan of Arc into Reims in 1429: Jan Matejko: National Museum in Kraków: 1887 Entree de Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans
The core of Pyrrhus' army consisted of 5,000 Macedonian phalanxians, together with the phalanxes of the Epirus regions armed in the Macedonian style. Pyrrhus' army also had a small force of highly effective Thessalian cavalry, and some force from Rhodes, among other light infantry such as the Peltasts and Cretan archers. One of the main weapons ...
Pyrrhus II (Greek: Πύρρος) was the son of Olympias II and Alexander II of Epirus. He was a brother of Ptolemy and Phthia of Macedon. He ruled as king of Epirus from 255 BC to 237 BC. He had two daughters: Deidamia II who was the last ruler of the Aeacid Dynasty and Nereis who married Gelon of Syracuse. Tribes of Epirus in antiquity
Lionel Royer was born in Château-du-Loir in Sarthe on 25 December 1852. He volunteered before his 18th birthday for the Franco-Prussian War and took part in the Battle of Loigny-Poupry on 2 December 1870 under the command of General Athanase Charette de la Contrie.
The village, originally named Domrémy, is the birthplace of Joan of Arc. It has since been renamed Domrémy-la-Pucelle after Joan's nickname, la Pucelle d' Orléans ("the Maid of Orléans"). Geography