The Siege of Calais Size:XS: 25 x 20cm 12th September 1965

12th September 1965

Species of fish and a lizard from thesis XI 'Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum' by Laurent Balk

von Moll (New edition

Distribution of pamphlets supporting John Wilkes outside the Fleet Prison

Percy Chapel

The Siege of Calais Size:XS: 25 x 20cm 12th September 1965The Siege of Calais, France, 1346 1347 (1864). During the Hundred Years War, Edward III (1312 1377) of England laid siege to Calais, which he regarded as an ideal base from which to bring in supplies to his army in France. The city held out from September 1346 until August the following year, by which time its population was starving, before finally surrendering. Calais then remained in English hands for over 200 years before being recaptured by the