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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
Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzmán, 4th Duke of Alba, Grandee of Spain, was a commander in the Spanish army during the Eighty Years' War.
Don Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, IV Duke of Alba.
