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  • She then said that she had made an assault, called in French/escarmouche/(skirmish), upon the town of Paris.

    Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

  • Joan answered that she had made one skirmish (escarmouche) in front of Paris.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • Sometimes you stumbled upon an escarmouche, sometimes you fled from one, sometimes you drew blank.

    With the Allies Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Joan answered that she had made one skirmish (_escarmouche_) in front of Paris.

    Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

  • She then said that she had made an assault, called in French _escarmouche_

    Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

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