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To the improved cannon must be attributed the losses of the English in France during the reign of Henry VI.; the artillery of Charles VII. was greatly superior to that possessed by any of the English garrisons, and fortress after fortress, impregnable with the earlier conditions of warfare, fell to the French artillery. At the siege of Orleans Metz lent the beleaguered town a gigantic cannon, and when Joan of Arc went to raise the siege she had with her an immense quantity of fire-arms. The few cannon then in the possession of the English in France are enumerated in a contemporary record cited in Stevenson's "Wars of the English in France."