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  1. Port in N France; population (1982) 101,000.
  2. Taken by England's Edward III in 1347, it was
  3. saved from destruction by the personal
  4. surrender of the Burghers of Calais
  5. commemorated in Rodin's sculpture; the French
  6. retook it 1558. Following German occupation
  7. May 1940-Oct 1944, it surrendered to the
  8. Canadians.
  9.