Siege of Mercq 1405 CE.
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On 6 May of 1405, a French army under the command of Waleran III, Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol besieged the English castle at Mercq in Pas-de-Calais.
Text from the Wikipedia article Siege of Mercq , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
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