“As long as we occupy Calais, we can console ourselves for the loss of Antwerp.”
Saying allegedly expressed by Lord A.J. Balfour to Sir Winston Churchill, then first Lord of the Admiralty, after the Fall of Antwerp on October 9, 1914.
As cited in Jean Lulvès, Calais sous la domination anglaise 1347–1558 (Bern: Ferd. Wyss, 1918), opening statement. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56126361/f6.image. Accessed April 2, 2021. My translation.