There were but a handful of English in France.

And they may be said to have fought only for plunder.

Those who suffered from the war were those who did not fight, burghers, priests, and peasants.

The peasants endured terrible hardships, and it is quite conceivable that a peasant girl should have displayed a firmness in war, a persistence and an ardour unknown throughout the whole of chivalry.
It was not Jeanne who drove the English from France.

If she contributed to the deliverance of Orleans, she retarded the ultimate salvation of France by causing the opportunity of conquering Normandy to be lost through the coronation campaign.