Siege of Calais (1346–1347)
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The <entity_2> (<entity_1> – <entity_3>) occurred at the conclusion of the Crécy campaign, when an English army under the command of King Edward III of <entity_5> successfully besieged the French town of <entity_6> during the Edwardian phase of the <entity_0>. On <entity_3> <entity_6> capitulated. Following a series of disagreements between Philip VI of <entity_7> (r. 1328–1350) and Edward III of <entity_5> (r. 1327–1377), on 24 May 1337 Philip's Great Council in Paris agreed that Gascony and Ponthieu should be taken back into Philip's hands on the grounds that Edward was in breach of his obligations as a vassal. A major victualling operation drew on sources throughout <entity_5> and Wales to supply the besiegers, as well as overland from nearby <entity_4>. Philip vacillated: on the day the <entity_8> of <entity_6> began he disbanded most of his army to save money, convinced that Edward had finished his chevauchée and would proceed to <entity_4> and ship his army home. On <entity_3> <entity_6> surrendered. <entity_6> was vital to <entity_5>'s effort against the French for the rest of the war, it being all but impossible to land a large force other than at a friendly port. <entity_6> was finally lost by the English monarch Mary I, following the 1558 <entity_8> of <entity_6>. The fall of <entity_6> marked the loss of <entity_5>'s last possession in mainland <entity_7>.
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