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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 failed siege by Sir Geoffroi de Charny on December 31, 1348 *
Siege of Calais (1436) The siege of Calais between June and July 1436 was a failed siege of English-held Calais by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and Flemish militia. Prelude England and Burgundy had been allies against France in the Hundred Years' War since 1 ...
, the failed siege of Calais by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy *
Siege of Calais (1558) The French siege of Calais in early 1558 was part of the Italian War of 1551–1559 between France and England and their respective allies. It resulted in the seizure of the town by France. The Pale of Calais had been ruled by England since ...
, 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) 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 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 artill ...
, 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 libr ...
'', 1836 opera by Gaetano Donizetti about the 1346 siege {{disambiguation