Siege of Calais (1346-47)
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Siege of Calais may refer to: * Siege of Calais (1346–1347), 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 siege of Calais of 1596, also known as the Spanish conquest of Calais, took place at the strategic port-city of Calais (present-day Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France), between April 8–24, 1596, as part of the Franco-Spanish War (1595–1598), in t ...
, 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), siege and capture by the Germans during World War II *
Operation Undergo Operation Undergo was an attack by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on the German garrison and fortifications of the French port of Calais, during September 1944. A subsidiary operation was executed to capture German long-range, heavy artille ...
, 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