Editing Calais (section)

===<FONT COLOR="#3366FF">'''19th and 20th Centuries'''</FONT>===
* Calais was also on the front lines of France's conflict with the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1805, it hosted part of Napoleon's army and invasion fleet for his Napoleon's invasion of England, an aborded mission.

* The British returned to Calais again during World War I, due to its proximity to the front lines in Flanders as a key port for the supply of arms and reinforcements to the Western Front. 

* The town was virtually razed to the ground during World War II. In May 1940, it was a key objective of the invading German forces and became the scene of a last-ditch defence — the Siege of Calais (1940) — which diverted a sizable amount of German forces for several days immediately prior to the Battle of Dunkirk. During the ensuing German occupation, it became the command post for German forces in the Pas-de-Calais/Flanders region and was very heavily fortified, as it was generally believed by the Germans that the Allies would invade at that point. 

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