Battle of Oosterweel
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The Battle of Oosterweel took place on 13 March 1567 near the village of Oosterweel, near Antwerp, in present-day Belgium, and is traditionally seen as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War. A Spanis
Battle of Oosterweel From Frans Hogenberg's Nederlandse Gebeurtenissen
Battle of Oosterweel, engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe
Battle of Oosterweel Famien Strada
Spanish Fury
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The Spanish Fury was a number of violent sackings of cities in the Low Countries or Benelux, mostly by Spanish Habsburg armies, that happened in the years 1572–1579 during the Dutch Revolt. In some ca
Mutinous troops of the Army of Flanders ransack the Grote Markt during the sack of Antwerp in 1576. Engraving by Frans Hogenberg.
The Spanish Fury of Maastricht in 1579
Massacre of Naarden, 1 December 1572, Spanish soldiers slaughtering local civilians (17th century etching by J. Luyken) British Museum, London
The pillaging of Maastricht in 1576