>>718652161
She was some peasant girl in the middle of a war between the british and the french, regardless of whoever won, nothing would really change for her if she'd stayed a peasant. What did she do? She broke into a tomb, took up some guy's sword, convinced a couple of guys to escort her to the king of france and told them all that an archangel had commanded her to free france from the british. Jeanne singlehandedly turned that war around with her presence alone, she never killed anyone or shed blood, and is widely credited as being responsible for nationalism as an entire concept. The british were seething so much about her that they went out of their way to capture her, her entourage was more than willing to die to the last to protect her, but she surrendered without a fight rather than sacrifice them. They put her on a bogus trial as a witch, and DESPITE THAT FACT, she successfully defended herself in court even though she didn't know how to read. They burned her at the stake anyway.