A long siege by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429

Usage examples of orleans.

At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.

She decided to go to New Orleans to train to become a nurse anesthetist because she knew she could make more money that way to support herself and her new son.

I meet people from Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Seattle, Balti more, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Dallas who will swear before witnesses and under oath that Ray Charles is a native of their cities.

The other three, Ringling and Baraboo and Bailey, had permanent gigs playing circus music for a New Orleans disney.

New Orleans, going to drive all night, sleep all day tomorrow, then barrelhouse all night long.

Her father is a rich merchant in England, and she has properties of her own in New Orleans and Biloxi, left to her by her kin.

Had they traveled from Natchez to New Orleans by steamboat and then by ship to Biloxi, they would have greatly reduced their time en route, but Robert Somerton had brought a fine carriage to the city on the bluff, and by this mode he would return.

De Mille movie set, sweeping up from the cotton-rich bottomland to the spires and mansions on the great bluff, then back down again to the Triton plant and the sandbars where the river rolls on toward New Orleans and the Gulf.

Atlanta, no real plan in mind except to meet the Cajun godfather in person, try to shake him up and crank his paranoia up an octave with the news that members of his home team in New Orleans had begun to crack.

New Orleans to fascinating Mexican cities like Guanajuato, Zacarecas, Aguas Calientes, Guadalajara, and of course the City of Mexico.

Nothing but a mutt, a New Orleans fence-jumper, but he had lots of Catahoula hound in him -- whitish-brownish fur and eyes that were pale pale blue, almost silver.

New Orleans, or eaten himself ill, as we nearly did ourselves, on a generous mixture of clam-chowder, terrapin, soft-shelled crabs, Jersey peaches, canvas-backed ducks, Catawba wine, winter cherries, brandy cocktails, strawberry-shortcake, ice-creams, corn-dodger, and a judicious brew commonly known as a Colorado corpse-reviver.

Oysters Rockefeller, Bienville and Roffignac-flounder Nouvelle Orleans, stuffed with seasoned crabmeat, choux fleur Polonaise, pommes au four, and-from the hovering wine steward-a bottle of Montrachet.

Every hour in New Orleans gave the enemy another chance to tag Jean Cuvier, another chance to kill Aurelia Boldiszar.

Rhyme ordered someone to check out the escapology museum in New Orleans that Kara had mentioned.