The Surrender of Calais Size:S: 45 x 30cm Clift is balding

Clift is balding

Stepney Grammar School

30th October 1982

Plate 21 for the paper 'Sur un moyen de donner la Direction aux machines aerostatiques'

The Queen seen here with the Duchess of Windsor and the Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle for the funeral of Edward VIII The Duke of Windsor

The Surrender of Calais Size:S: 45 x 30cm Clift is balding'The Surrender of Calais', 19th century. A scene from the 100 Years War, in which Edward III of England, having finally taken Calais in 1346, asks for six citizens to be sent to him, to die for their town. The six volunteers were led by Eustache de St Pierre, one of the town's elders, who was the first to volunteer. Their lives were spared by the intervention of Edward's queen, Philippa of Hainault.