Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Patay (Hundred Years' War).

Fought June 18, 1429, between the French, under Joan of Arc and the Duc d'Alençon, and the English, under Talbot and Sir John Fastolfe. The English were retiring after the siege of Orleans, and their advanced guard under Talbot, being attacked by the French, was seized with a panic, and refusing to meet the charge of the French cavalry, broke and fled. The main body, under Fastolfe, however, maintained its formation, and made good its retreat to Etampes. Talbot was made prisoner.