Jeanne d'Arc (Joan the Arc) is a national heroine of France who asserted that she had visions from God which instructed her to recover her homeland France from English domination. She led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years's War. "Since the writing of human history, Jeanne d'Arc is the only person, of either sex, who has ever held supreme command of the military forces of a nation at the age of seventeen"