Siege of Calais (1346–1347) was finally lost by the English monarch Mary I following the 1558 siege of Calais. The fall of Calais marked the capture of England's last possession in mainland France. In 1880, Calais commissioned a statue by Auguste Rodin of the town leaders at the moment of their surrender to Edward. The resulting work, "The Burghers of Calais", was completed in 1889. Siege of Calais (1346–1347) The Siege of Calais (4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347) occurred when an English army under the command of King Edward III of England successfully besieged the French garrison of Calais. It was an
The Sodor & Mainland Railway a steamer ferry service from Kirk Ronan to Dublin, nothing much came of it. The Sodor & Mainland Railway's finances collapsed in 1910 and finally the company amalgamated with other small railways on the island under military pressure in 1914, to form the North Western Railway (NWR), now under the direction of its CEO, Sir Topham Hatt, better known as The Fat Controller. The S&M's dreams of a link between Sodor and the Mainland did eventually come to pass under the reign of Sir Topham Hatt, who constructed a rail bridge across the Walney Channel. Only a small length of