"It will be well to have horses," was suggested by those about her.

She asked her neighbors, "Have you good spurs ?" "Ha!" cried they, "must we fly, then ?" "No, surely," replied Joan: "but there will be need to ride boldly; we shall give a good account of the English, and our spurs will serve us famously in pursuing them." The battle began on the 18th of June, at Patay, between Orleans and Chateaudun.

By Joan's advice, the French attacked.

"In the name of God," said she, "we must fight.

Though the English were suspended from the clouds, we should have them, for God hath sent us to punish them.