Historical characters you admire

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They did get her in the end and burned her at the stake, but she played a major role in the war coming to an end.

Depends if you call an additional 22 years bringing the war to an end.

Also it stands to argue that it wasn't actually a defensive war. The english King was entitled to parts of France and even the French throne by right of birth. Nominally he was a vassal of the French king with his French territories. And that got things in motion.