7 sentences with “peasant”

Joan of Arc was a peasant girl who stepped into the middle of the conflict in 1429, supporting the French dauphin (heir) Charles VII.

However, evidence (based on inscriptions) suggests that most soldiers were peasant conscripts with little or no armour and light weapons.

When interviewed, that peasant boy turned one of the richest men in the world gave this simple explanation of his success: "I have tried to live as my mother would have wished."

Remarkably, despite being a teenage peasant girl with no military background, Joan of Arc proved capable of aiming catapults, making tactical decisions and rallying French troops to victory.

The vast majority of the Persian forces were relatively ineffective peasant conscripts, reluctantly recruited from home and forced to fight for a king to whom they had little personal loyalty.

For a philosopher like David Hume, the average commoner (whether a peasant or a member of the poor urban classes) was so steeped in ignorance, superstition and credulity that he had to be controlled and ruled by his betters.

In 1524, a huge peasant uprising took place throughout Germany, inspired by this interpretation of Lutheranism and demanding a reduction of feudal rights and duties, an end to serfdom and greater justice on the part of the feudal lords.