Calais surrenders to Edward III
August 1347
After eleven months of starvation, the Channel port capitulated. Six burghers came out in their shirts with ropes around their necks to plead for the city's people. Queen Philippa famously begged her husband to spare them, and Edward relented. Calais would remain English for two centuries, a constant thorn in French sides and a bridgehead for invasion.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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