Joan of Arc defeats the English and Charles VII is crowned King of France.
ithdrawal and retreat of the English began early on the morning of 18th June. The English where 'about a league' from the town of Patay, 20 miles North of Meung, when the French cavalry fell like a thunderclap upon the rearguard, which was commanded by John Fastolf. The English attempted to deploy for battle but on that open plain the French cavalry, led by La Hire and Xaintrailles, with Joan of Arc, to her disgust, forced to watch their attack from a position in the rear, were among the archers of the rearguard before they could plant their stake in thick, defensive hedgerows, driving them back into the main body.
Fastolf then galloped after the vanguard to recall it to the battle, but the captains of the vanguard took his headlong arrival as the signal for 'sauve qui peut' and the English army collapsed. The vanguard fled the rearguard and centre was cut down. Lord Talbot was captured, along with Lord Scales and several other knights while the French rode around the plain, cutting down every archer they could reach. Rounding up what men he could, Fastolf and the remainder of the army stood off the French until nightfall, and then fell back on Paris, while Joan of Arc led the victorious French and their prisoners back to Orléans.