The Siege of Calais Silverstone Chris Waddle

Chris Waddle

View of Clapham Manor House and its garden

Crowds await the arrival of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at St Peter Port in Guernsey on her royal visit to the Channel Islands with her husband Prince Philip

A Lord Mayor

The Siege of Calais Silverstone Chris WaddleThe 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