This day in history:

Calais, the last English possession on the mainland of France, was regained by the French on New Year's Eve 1558 when the defenders were drunk.
The kings of England once ruled more of France than the French kings themselves, but over centuries their
French possessions were whittled away to the point where by 1453 all that was left was Calais and the small territory around it.
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