Vintage engraving of a scene from the Froissart's Chronicles, Siege of Calais 1347. The Siege of Calais (4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347) occurred when an English army under the command of King Edward III of England successfully besieged the French garrison of Calais. It was an important engagement early in the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War.

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