Name given to
Joan of Arc after she lead the
French army to a
victory against the English at
Orleans.
According to Charles Dicken's book A Child's History of England, the story went something like this:
She rode upon a white war-horse, in a suit of glittering armour; with the old, old sword from the cathedral,
newly burnished, in her belt; with a white flag carried before her, upon which were a picture of God, and the words JESUS MARIA. In this splendid state, at the head of a great body of troops escorting provisions of all kinds for the starving inhabitants of Orleans, she appeared before that beleaguered city.
When the people on the walls beheld her, they cried out 'The Maid is come! The Maid of the Prophecy is come to deliver us!' And this, and the sight of the Maid fighting at the head of their men, made the French so bold, and made the English so fearful, that the English line of forts was soon broken, the troops and provisions were got into the town, and Orleans was saved.