What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
In one of her victories, Joan of Arc led the French on May 7, 1429, in storming the fortress of Tournelles, which the English were occupying. A letter written on April 22 includes Joan's prophecy that she would be wounded in this engagement, and she was struck by an arrow during the battle.