Sack of Antwerp
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The sack of Antwerp, often known as the Spanish Fury at Antwerp, was an episode of the Eighty Years' War. It is the greatest massacre in the history of the Low Countries.
Anonymous contemporary depiction of the "Spanish Fury" in Antwerp (Museum Aan de Stroom)
Antwerp is sacked.
Black Legend
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The Black Legend or the Spanish Black Legend is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda. Its proponents argue that its roots date back to the
Sack of Antwerp
…to Antwerp's decline from the Netherlands' economic, financial, and cultural center and paved the way for Amsterdam's rise. This event also added to Spain's Black Legend. Spanish Fury at Mechelen…
A 1598 Dutch engraving by Theodor de Bry depicting a Spaniard feeding slain Indigenous American women and children to his dogs. De Bry's works are characteristic of anti-Spanish propaganda which resulted from the Eighty Years' War.
Contemporary, anonymous anti-Spanish propaganda painting of the 4 November 1576 Spanish Fury in Antwerp
The Spanish Fury at Maastricht in 1579
The Spanish Brute, US cartoon, 1898