 With charismatic leaders such as Joan of Arc and La Hire, and with England losing its main allies, the French forces counterattacked.Charles VII of France was crowned in Notre-Dame de Reims in 1429, and from then a slow but steady reconquest of English-held French territories ensued.Ultimately the English would be expelled from France and lose all of their continental territories, except the Pale of Calais (which would be captured in 1558).