When the British army was attacking the south of France, a French brave girl Joan volunteered to fight against the British army.

英军进攻法国南部时，有个勇敢的女孩圣女贞德主动请缨，对抗英军。

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She was the wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army during the American Revolutionary War, and is said to have spied against him out of sympathy for the Revolution.

她是英国将军盖基的妻子。在美国独立战争中，盖基是英军司令。

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They volunteered to join Tennessean Andrew Jackson to defend the city of New Orleans,Louisiana, against the British army in the War of Eighteen Twelve.

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George Washington met here in 1781 with the Comte de Rochambeau of the French expeditionary army, to plot successfully against the British at Yorktown.

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