France Recaptures Calais
January 7, 1558
Under cover of winter fog, the Duke of Guise led a French force in a surprise attack on the English garrison at Calais and retook the last English possession on the Continent. Mary I, brokenhearted, is said to have declared that after her death Calais would be found engraved on her heart.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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