Spanish fury
English
Noun
Spanish fury (plural Spanish furies)
- (historical) A vindictive or rampant bloody pillage of cities in the Low Countries by Spanish regular or mutinous troops between the years 1572–1579, during the Dutch Revolt.
- The most famous Spanish fury was the sack of Antwerp in 1576.
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