The French army under Geoffrey de Charny is ambushed on the drawbridge of the gate-tower in the Battle of Calais; 1349. Battle of Calais; between the King of England (under Sir Walter de Manny) and the French. Woodcut after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England; France; Spain and the Adjoining Countries; from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV; George Routledge; London; 1868.