Talk:Sack of Antwerp

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[edit] Fake data deleted

I have deletted the following sentence:

Thousands of people were killed and hundreds of houses were burnt.

This is a myth of the Black Legend tipical of the XVI century Dutch propaganda. We are now in 2005 and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.


The Spanish Fury was one of a series of events which led to the downfall of Spain's Golden Age.

The Spanish Fury was not a cause of the Spanish decadence in Holland, but a good point for the Black Legend.

[edit] Is Henry Kamen impartial?

In the article the number of victims is said to be 8.000, and Henry Kamen is quoted. I am Spanish, and I would like to say that in Spain Mr. Kamen is considereed by some historians as a not impartial historian. In fact, many of his quotes are put in doubt by Spanish historians. Somebody called him The first anti-Spanish Hispanist.
Also his articles about the Spanish Civil War were much critized. In fact, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, member of the Real Academia Española has attacked Kamen´s work in a hard way in a public article. His attack was based, among other things in the lack of credibility of Kamen´s sources.
Despite I admit to have not much knowledge about the Spanish Fury it seems that 8.000 people killed in three days using weapons from 16th century, are too many people. Even the Nazis did not reach such number of murderings in many cities stormed by them. Calculín

[edit] Long-term effects on Antwerp

Didn't this sack lead to Antwerp's decline from the "economic, financial and cultural" center of the Netherlands and pave the way for Amsterdam's rise? Brutannica 18:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)