Spanish fury

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Spanish fury (plural Spanish furies)

  1. (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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