Spanish furies

A form of Spanish fury — 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.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Spanish fury
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