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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[England|English]] forces under [[Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury]], [[Siege of Orléans|besiege Orléans]]. [[Jean de Dunois]], the Bastard of Orléans, commands the defenders. Bombardment starts on October 17 and troops attempt an assault on <ref name=Rankin>{{cite book|title=The First Biography of Joan of Arc: Translated and Annotated by Daniel Rankin and Claire Quintal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5AnyffsHu4C&pg=PA67|date=15 February 1964|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=978-0-8229-7540-3|pages=67|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Siege of Orléans]]: After four days of bombardment, English troops attempt an assault on the [[bastion|boulevart]] of the city walls but the French defenders hold the attackers back with missile fire, rope nets, scalding oil, hot coals and quicklime.<ref>J.H. Ramsay, ''Lancaster and York: A century of English history (A.D. 1399–1485) Vol. 1'' (Oxford: Clarendon, 1892)</ref> p.383 <ref name=Rankin/>
* [[October 24]] &ndash; Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans. He is succeeded in command by [[William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk|William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk]].
* [[November 11]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Kratzau]] takes place in [[Bohemia]] in what is now the city of [[Chrastava]] in the [[Czech Republic]], as the [[Silesia]]n troops of the  [[Bohemian Crown Lands]] under of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] ([[Upper Lusatia]], the duchies of [[Duchy of Jawor|Jawor]] and [[Duchy of Wroclaw|Wroclaw]], Polenz, [[Lower Lusatia]] and the [[Duchy of Żagań]], led by [[:de:Hans von Polenz|Hans von Polenz]], repel an attack by the [[Sirotci]] [[Hussites]] led by [[:cs:Jan Královec z Hrádku|Jan Královec]].<ref>[[:de:Eberhard Windeck|Eberhard Windeck]]: Kaiser Sigismunds Buch (1440–50)</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; The [[Appenzell Wars]] come to an end in Switzerland as [[Frederick VII, Count of Toggenburg]] and knights of the [[:de:Sankt Jörgenschild|Order of St. George's Shield]] defeat the rebel army of the [[Canton of Appenzell]] in a battle on the field between [[Gossau, St. Gallen|Gossau]] and [[Herisau]].<ref>"Appenzell Wars (1401-1429)" in ''Historical Dictionary of Switzerland'' online</ref> In a truce the next year, Appenzell is forced to repay the back taxes owed to the owed the Abbey of St. Gallbut is relieved from future obligations.
* [[December 27]] &ndash; In the [[:pl:Bitwa pod Starym Wielisławiem|Battle of]] [[Stary Wielisław]] (now in Poland), the [[Hussites]] are defeated in an attack by the Bohemian forces led by the Silesian Duke [[John I of Münsterberg]] (who is killed in the fighting) and [[Půta III of Častolovice]], Governor of [[Klodzko Land]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VII|year=1886|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=813}} (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries, Volume VII)</ref>