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Calais Captured

Name: Calais Captured – England factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

England · Warfare / Hundred Years War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Edward III3 August 1347

Calais · Warfare / Hundred Years War

Captures Calais after an eleven month siege

Names involved

Edward III

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