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Siege of Calais (1346–1347) The siege of Calais (4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347) occurred at the conclusion of the Crécy campaign, when an English army under the command of King Edward III of England successfully besieged the French town of Calais during the E ...
, the siege and capture of Calais by the English during the Hundred Years' War *
Siege of Calais (1349) The Battle of Calais took place in 1350 when an English force defeated an unsuspecting French army which was attempting to take the city. Despite a truce being in effect the French commander Geoffrey de Charny had planned to take the city b ...
, the failed siege by Sir Geoffroi de Charny on December 31, 1348 * Siege of Calais (1436), the failed siege of Calais by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy * Siege of Calais (1558), the siege and capture of the town by the French in the reign of Queen Mary of England * Siege of Calais (1596), the capture of the town by the Spanish on behalf of the French Catholic League during the French civil war of 1585-98 *
Siege of Calais (1940) The siege of Calais (1940) was a battle for the port of Calais during the Battle of France. The siege was fought at the same time as the Battle of Boulogne, just before Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) t ...
, siege and capture by the Germans during World War II * Operation Undergo, the Allied siege and capture of Calais in 1944 *''
L'assedio di Calais ''L'assedio di Calais'' (''The siege of Calais'') is an 1836 ''melodramma lirico'', or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, his 49th opera. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as "...a remarkable libret ...
'', 1836 opera by Gaetano Donizetti about the 1346 siege {{disambiguation